Re: seq.el and the complexity of Emacs Lisp.

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org>
> Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2023 22:43:49 +0100
> 
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> >> I looked at seq.el to try to get an idea what those
> >> functions do. It was difficult to get this from the doc
> >> strings, because it wasn't explicitly stated which ones are
> >> for users and which ones are internal.
> >
> > Our convention nowadays is that any function/variable that
> > has 2 dashes after the prefix, in this case seq--SOMETHING,
> > is internal, and all the others are public.
> 
> Are you only allowed to use some--private-function in the same
> file where it is defined?

That's the convention, yes.

> To what extent has this convention been upheld in the
> Emacs source?

It is upheld quite closely.