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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Daniel Mendler <mail@daniel-mendler.de>
Cc: 47992@debbugs.gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca,
	jakanakaevangeli@chiru.no
Subject: bug#47992: 27; 28; Phase out use of `equal` in `add-hook`, `remove-hook`
Date: Mon, 03 May 2021 10:50:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a6pcdwvp.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8b715c19-e6bf-90a8-75a2-3ae3e1ace563@daniel-mendler.de> (Daniel Mendler's message of "Sun, 2 May 2021 12:37:24 +0200")

Daniel Mendler <mail@daniel-mendler.de> writes:

> 1. Do almost nothing, but document the behavior of `add/remove-hook`
> more precisely. Add a warning, that the functions should not be used
> with large/cyclic closures and an symbol indirection should be used in
> such scenarios. Generally it should be recommended to add symbols.

I've now added such a recommendation to the add-hook doc string in Emacs
28.

> 2. As you propose we could either add new `add/remove-hook-eq` variants.
> 3. Add an argument to the `add/remove-hook` functions, which allows to
> turn on `eq` equality.

Adding another argument to the functions doesn't seem all that
attractive...  but...  neither does adding a new pair of functions,
really...

I guess the doc change might have to suffice here.

-- 
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  reply	other threads:[~2021-05-03  8:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-24 12:11 bug#47992: 27; 28; Phase out use of `equal` in `add-hook`, `remove-hook` Daniel Mendler
2021-04-24 20:12 ` bug#47992: [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-04-24 20:23   ` Daniel Mendler
2021-04-24 21:20     ` Drew Adams
2021-04-24 21:34       ` Daniel Mendler
2021-04-24 22:30   ` Stefan Monnier
2021-04-24 22:38     ` Daniel Mendler
2021-04-24 23:04       ` Stefan Monnier
2021-04-24 23:38         ` Daniel Mendler
2021-04-25  1:16         ` Drew Adams
2021-04-25  3:08           ` Stefan Monnier
2021-04-25  4:57             ` Drew Adams
2021-04-25 13:52               ` Stefan Monnier
2021-04-25  1:16       ` Drew Adams
2021-04-25  1:23     ` Drew Adams
2021-04-25  3:10       ` Stefan Monnier
2021-04-25  4:57         ` Drew Adams
2021-04-25 10:33           ` Daniel Mendler
2021-04-25 13:56           ` Stefan Monnier
2021-05-02  9:09 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-05-02 10:37   ` Daniel Mendler
2021-05-03  8:50     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2021-07-06 14:44     ` Olivier Certner
     [not found]   ` <877di6udfy.fsf@web.de>
2021-07-04  1:09     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-07-04  2:35       ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-07-04  2:56         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-07-04  4:28           ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-07-04 13:36             ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-07-04 17:08               ` bug#47992: [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-07-04 22:45                 ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-07-05 12:39                 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-07-06  1:48             ` Richard Stallman
2021-07-06  2:37               ` bug#47992: [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-07-06  3:21                 ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-07-07 23:57                 ` Richard Stallman
2021-07-06  9:46               ` Arthur Miller
2021-07-07 23:57                 ` Richard Stallman
2021-07-08  2:11                   ` Arthur Miller
2021-07-04 23:15       ` Michael Heerdegen

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