Re: seq.el and the complexity of Emacs Lisp.

[Emanuel Berg]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>>>> I looked at seq.el to try to get an idea what those
>>>> functions do. It was difficult to get this from the doc
>>>> strings, because it wasn't explicitly stated which ones
>>>> are for users and which ones are internal.
>>>
>>> Our convention nowadays is that any function/variable that
>>> has 2 dashes after the prefix, in this case
>>> seq--SOMETHING, is internal, and all the others
>>> are public.
>> 
>> Are you only allowed to use some--private-function in the
>> same file where it is defined?
>
> That's the convention, yes.

Maybe the byte-compiler should warn when using such functions
in/from other files?

>> To what extent has this convention been upheld in the
>> Emacs source?
>
> It is upheld quite closely.

Okay, great!

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