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Re: "*" in variable names
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Simon Josefsson |
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Re: "*" in variable names |
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Fri, 09 Nov 2001 23:19:06 +0100 |
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"Stefan Monnier" <monnier+gnu/address@hidden> writes:
>> There was some clarification of "*" in variable names recently, but
>> the "Tips" node of the Emacs Lisp Reference manual wasn't updated. Is
>> the text below really correct? Doesn't Emacs use a convention of
>> choosing variable names that begin with "*" sometimes?
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> I don't think so. The only use of `*' with variables that I can
> think of is when you start the docstring with a `*', but that
> has nothing to do with the variable's name.
Argh, I missread and confused the two. Never mind.