[slime-devel] Re: Intentionally dynamic variables in elisp?

[Johan Bockgård]

Luke Gorrie <luke at synap.se> writes:

>> Should one use *names* like in Common Lisp?
>
> Definitely not :-)

Indeed,

   * 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.) The users will
     find Emacs more coherent if all libraries use the same
     conventions.

(info "(elisp)Coding Conventions")

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Johan Bockgård