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Re: filesets


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: filesets
Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 10:01:28 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux)

>> 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.

I was about to write exactly the same thing.


        Stefan




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