Re: garbace collection of point-markers

[Barry Margolin]

In article <87vg05yu6h.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com>,
Pascal Bourguignon  <pjb@informatimago.com> wrote:
>kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann) writes:
>
>> Pascal Bourguignon <pjb@informatimago.com> writes:
>> 
>> > Note that in emacs, the reader does not
>> > convert-case the symbols.  So (not (eq 'DONT-COPY-P 'dont-copy-p))
>> 
>> It seems customary to refer to the args of a function by uppercase
>> names.  Type C-h f kill-buffer RET for an example.
>
>Exact.  But as a typographical distinction. Now that we have bolds and
>italics and  fonts, perhaps they should  just be put in  bold and stay
>low case.  When  you work with Common-Lisp in  addition to emacs lisp,
>it's usefull to keep the distinction in mind.

Perhaps in Emacs documentation, but in Usenet you should limit yourself to
simple ASCII.

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