Re: garbace collection of point-markers

[Pascal Bourguignon]

kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> Pascal Bourguignon <pjb@informatimago.com> writes:
> 
> > Note that in emacs, the reader does not
> > convert-case the symbols.  So (not (eq 'DONT-COPY-P 'dont-copy-p))
> 
> It seems customary to refer to the args of a function by uppercase
> names.  Type C-h f kill-buffer RET for an example.

Exact.  But as a typographical distinction. Now that we have bolds and
italics and  fonts, perhaps they should  just be put in  bold and stay
low case.  When  you work with Common-Lisp in  addition to emacs lisp,
it's usefull to keep the distinction in mind.


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