Re: Rant - Elisp terminology is deceptive

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2015 12:28:21 +0900
> Cc: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>, address@hidden
> 
>  > > This "default-value" and "setq-default" dates back to the very
>  > > beginning of time, tho.
>  > 
>  > Would renaming them be acceptable, so long as the old names are
>  > kept as aliases for backward compatibility? I don't think the names
>  > ⌜global-value⌝, ⌜setq-global⌝, and ⌜set-global⌝ would cause any
>  > confusion with any other concepts in Emacs, and they're unlikely to
>  > conflict with anybody's custom code.
> 
> Please don't.

Yes, please let's not.  It's too late to introduce changes in that
terminology.