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Re: [External] : Re: The function naming convention used by Emacs.


From: Emanuel Berg
Subject: Re: [External] : Re: The function naming convention used by Emacs.
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2021 03:54:19 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Drew Adams wrote:

> Common Lisp uses lots of such "functions" (including macros
> etc.) that are named with suffix `f'.

Let's pretend I got it from there ...

Because in Elisp there seems to be the spelled-out "-function"
convention that seems to be the one to use ...

Often it is variables that indicate one is to set it to
a function, e.g.

(setq browse-url-browser-function #'w3m-browse-url)

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