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Re: Imports / inclusion of s.el into Emacs


From: Dmitry Gutov
Subject: Re: Imports / inclusion of s.el into Emacs
Date: Sat, 2 May 2020 16:29:08 +0300
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On 02.05.2020 16:23, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
You expect the_name_  to tell you all that??  Then what do you think
of C library functions like realpath or stpcpy or strpbrk or rpmatch?

Let's please not use the C library as the example of good naming practice.

Let's not exaggerate, it is only useful if you want to present an
argument ad absurdum.  The world of programming is full of obscure
acronyms, and there's nothing we can do about that.

There are more recent popular languages where the situation is much better. The author of s.el came from one of them.



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