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Re: filesets


From: Miles Bader
Subject: Re: filesets
Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 22:33:18 +0900

"Robert J. Chassell" <address@hidden> writes:
> Actually, the argument `files' could be `files-list' which is longer,
> too, but more helpful to whichever person reads the code in fifteen
> years.

Given the pervasiveness of lists in lisp, I don't think "files-list"
_is_ particularly more helpful, and it's certainly more ugly.  If a
variable is plural, you can basically assume it's a list unless
explicitly told otherwise.

-Miles

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