Re: Imports / inclusion of s.el into Emacs

[João Távora]

On Sat, May 2, 2020 at 2:43 PM <address@hidden> wrote:
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> On Sat, May 02, 2020 at 02:34:11PM +0100, João Távora wrote:
> > On Sat, May 2, 2020 at 2:29 PM Dmitry Gutov <address@hidden> wrote:
> > >
> > > On 02.05.2020 16:23, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > > > You expect the_name_  to tell you all that??  Then what do you think
> > > > of C library functions like realpath or stpcpy or strpbrk or rpmatch?
> > >
> > > Let's please not use the C library as the example of good naming practice.
> >
> > I bet you'll find people that think it has the best naming. I kind of like 
> > it.
> >
> > My point this: this is all quite subjective. "recent" and "popular" doesn't
> > necessarily equal "good".
>
> ...or perhaps it is, but it's a different culture, so it's somewhat
> irrelevant. I'm all for putting thought when developing new interfaces,
> and correcting obvious mistakes in old ones, but for the latter, one
> would first have to gather some consensus that it's broken, then on
> which direction to take, and then on doing the change. That's the art!

I agree!