Re: Rant - Elisp terminology is deceptive

[Stefan Monnier]

> Since ‟default” is already misused to mean «global», it can't be changed to
> mean «standard», since that would cause even more confusion. ‟Standard” can
> stay the way it is. ‟Buffer-local” can too. But please stop using the word
> ‟default” for «global»; use ‟global”. There's already precedence in Emacs:
> describe-variable calls it ‟global”.

I tend to agree.  This "default-value" and "setq-default" dates back
to the very beginning of time, tho.


        Stefan