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Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 50548fd: cl-fill: Rename arguments to cl-seq an


From: Leo Liu
Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 50548fd: cl-fill: Rename arguments to cl-seq and cl-item
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2016 22:00:07 +0800
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1 (OS X 10.11.6)

On 2016-08-13 02:06 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>>     cl-fill: Rename arguments to cl-seq and cl-item
>
> Why?
>
> The "cl-" prefix is for global vars.  It used to be used "everywhere"
> for local vars as well because dynamic binding made the local vars
> visible in other scopes as well, but nowadays that CL uses
> lexical-binding this should not be needed any more and the tendency is
> rather to eliminate use of the "cl-" prefix for args and local vars.
>
>         Stefan

Apparently the functions surrounding cl-fill use cl- prefix. so the
change appear to be more cosmetic than technical.

Leo



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