From: Random832 <random832@fastmail.com>
To: 21709@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#21709: 25.0.50; doc of :variable in `define-minor-mode'
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2015 12:48:14 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87si567qk1.fsf@fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <131df705-9c27-4cb5-940e-755ea2635031@default>
Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
> Surely the function does not "set" a "state". It might set the
> variable to a new value (but it does not "set" the value).
A state could be a single variable, it could be a dozen variables, it
could be a file on the disk [which GET reads and SET writes] - the point
is to have an abstraction that doesn't care what it is.
Seems like what it really is is a "hackish" way to define a generalized
variable without actually defining one. A sort of "generalized variable
lambda" except for the fact that setf doesn't actually support it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-10-19 16:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-10-19 15:14 bug#21709: 25.0.50; doc of :variable in `define-minor-mode' Drew Adams
2015-10-19 16:48 ` Random832 [this message]
2015-10-19 17:52 ` Drew Adams
2021-08-16 12:22 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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