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"*" in variable names
From: |
Simon Josefsson |
Subject: |
"*" in variable names |
Date: |
Fri, 09 Nov 2001 19:41:24 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/21.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) |
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?
* In some other systems there is a convention of choosing variable
names that begin and end with `*'. We don't use that convention
in Emacs Lisp, so please don't use it in your programs. (Emacs
uses such names only for special-purpose buffers.) The users will
find Emacs more coherent if all libraries use the same conventions.
- "*" in variable names,
Simon Josefsson <=