Re: code critique requested

[Kevin Rodgers]

Sebastian Tennant wrote:
> Quoth Tim X <timx@nospam.dev.null>:
> > jpw@pobox.com (John Paul Wallington) writes:
> >
> > > metaperl.com wrote:
> > >
> > > > (defvar *asciidoc-indent-level*
> > > Sticking asterisks around special variable names is a Common Lisp
> > > affliction that isn't done in Emacs Lisp.
> > From the emacs lisp reference ....
> >
> >    * In some other systems there is a convention of choosing variable
> >      names that begin and end with `*'.  We don't use that convention
> >      in Emacs Lisp, so please don't use it in your programs.  (Emacs
> >      uses such names only for special-purpose buffers.)  
>
> Can anyone expand on this?  When exactly should buffer names include or
> not include asteri?

I don't know about "exactly", but I think the convention is buffers that
are not visiting files.  (Not that buffer names have anything to do with
variable names.)

P.S. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/asteri

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Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA