Re: Working with constansts

[Nikolaj Schumacher]

Decebal <CLDWesterhof@gmail.com> wrote:

> But if I make a library and distribute it, the receiver could -
> unwittingly- change it. But the idea of using '+' to put before and
> after the variable name is a good one. I'll do that.

What about your internal variables?  The user is probably not supposed
to unwittingly change them, either.  So the problem isn't limited to
constants.  It's Elisp's complete lack of data-hiding.

The proper way to mark a variable as user-changeable is to start the
docstring with a "*".  To mark variables (or consts) as "private", it
has become somewhat common to use a double dash like prefix--value
instead of prefix-value.



regards,
Nikolaj Schumacher