Re: [ELPA] New package: transient

[Richard Stallman]

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  > If we decide the answer is yes (as advised by the coding conventions) we
  > could start by simply aliasing the existing API that does not follow this
  > convention. That'd mean `copy-alist` would be aliased as `alist-copy`, do
  > you think people would be strongly against this?

I think there is no need to rigidly put the crucial word 'alist'
at the start of the name.  Just having 'alist' in the function name
makes it easy enough to find that function.

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Dr Richard Stallman
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