GNU bug report logs - #59745
26.3; Rename `string-collate-lessp' to respect the convention

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2022 16:20:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: wontfix

Found in version 26.3

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #20 received at 59745 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 59745 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [External] : Re: bug#59745: 26.3; Rename `string-collate-lessp'
 to respect the convention
Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2022 20:50:01 +0200

> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
> CC: "59745 <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <59745 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
> Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2022 17:54:43 +0000
> 
> `string-lessp' in fact illustrates what I said:
> 
>   "Every such misnaming encourages others, as
>    people tend to base new names on names they
>    see for existing things."
> 
> Exactly that - you're now citing `string-lessp'
> as a precedent.  It's an easy, slippery slope.

Yes.  The manual says how things should be done.  Life(TM) sometimes
diverges.
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