From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#47992: 27; 28; Phase out use of `equal` in `add-hook`, `remove-hook` Date: Sun, 04 Jul 2021 03:09:15 +0200 Message-ID: <87wnq6opfo.fsf@gnus.org> References: <87mttdh57n.fsf@gnus.org> <877di6udfy.fsf@web.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="25997"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: Daniel Mendler , 47992@debbugs.gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, jakanakaevangeli@chiru.no To: Michael Heerdegen Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 04 03:10:12 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lzqeC-0006bq-JJ for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; 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Instead we should try > to provide a better tool for users to add stuff to hooks conveniently. > > Since the problem of identification is not trivial - how about forcing > the user to specify a name? How about a macro like > > (user-add-hook foo-hook my-configure-foo-keybindings > code...) ? Some other languages have the ability to add names to anonymous functions (yes, a contradiction in terms) to aid debugging and the like. We could also extend our `lambda' with an optional name -- it seems like that could be generally useful beyond this particular use case -- and then this new add-hook function could refuse to accept name-less lambdas... -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no