问题
I've been reading through a number of Emacs Lisp packages and have come across the convention of some functions being declared with -- after the library prefix, e.g.:
(defun eproject--combine-regexps (regexp-list)
I'm wondering if this a convention for declaring "private" functions to the library but so far I haven't found anything in the Emacs Coding guidelines.
回答1:
Emacs doesn't have any support for namespaces, packages, libraries or modules. Emacs sources therefore use foo- as a prefix for a foo library, and in some cases foo-- is used for bindings that are supposed to be internal.
回答2:
There is really no such thing as "internal" for Emacs. But yes, some programmers have adopted this convention to indicate things that are more internal -- meaning essentially that there will be less (or no) hesitation by implementors to change them. It's a way of letting users of the code be aware of this possible volatility.
来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3180390/what-does-the-double-minus-convention-in-function-names-mean-in-emacs-lisp