RE: New Package for GNU ELPA

[Ian Dunn]

On 2016-05-22, Drew Adams wrote:

> If this is a package in GNU ELPA, shouldn't its thingies have a
> package prefix?
> 
> IOW, shouldn't `define(-mode)-hook-helper' be called something like
> `hkhlp-define(-mode)-hook-helper'?
> 
> I'm not saying it should, as the rules for GNU ELPA packages are not
> clear to me.  But if its packages follow the general rule then they
> should have a prefix, no?
> 

According to the "Emacs Lisp Coding Conventions" section of the "GNU
Emacs Lisp Reference Manual":

"Constructs that define a function or variable should be macros, not
functions, and their names should start with ‘define-’."

That might make sense for `remove-hook-helper', though.

-- 
Ian Dunn