Re: Internationalize Emacs's messages (swahili)

[Richard Stallman]

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  > Interesting.  Where can I read about the "basic design guides of Emacs
  > Lisp"?

I have never tried to write them down in one specific place.

  > It is not clear, what exactly "the idea of adding more functions in the
  > name of symmetry" means.  Elisp has = /= < > <= >= predicates.  Does it
  > mean that <= /= > >= are against that idea because they can be trivially
  > expressed using = and < so programmers should write those "expansions"
  > by hand all over the place?

The idea here is only that we should not _automatically and rigidly_
complete every symmetric set of possible functions.  (Because that way
lies more bloat.)

I describ this as a "design guide" because that is different from a
rule.

If we had a rigid rule against full symmetric sets of functions, these
comparison functions would break the rule.  To be rigid about it, we
would be "obligated" to delete some of them.

However, the idea of the design guide is to reject the rigid rule,
which some systems seem to follow, that every function _must_ be part
of a full symmetric set.

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