From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: Shiyao Ma <i@introo.me>, 22066@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#22066: 24.5; documentation for "values" is not accurate
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2021 11:00:46 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvft26wo70.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87blcvm3m4.fsf@gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Mon, 08 Feb 2021 08:16:03 +0100")
FWIW, I think this `values` thingy should die.
It's just a memory leak plus one of the very few special-case variables
that are globally bound yet shouldn't be considered
a `special-variable-p` (The only other such cases I can remember are
`pi` (obsoleted by float-pi in 23.3) and `argv` and `argi` (both of
which should also be made obsolete, tho haven't yet either)).
IOW if we want to keep this feature, we should add some code to trim the
list and we should rename it so it doesn't need a special treatment.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-08 16:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-12-01 5:48 bug#22066: 24.5; documentation for "values" is not accurate Shiyao Ma
2019-08-01 17:21 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-08 7:16 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-08 16:00 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2021-02-08 16:15 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-08 17:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-02-09 7:37 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-09 7:57 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-09 15:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-02-09 15:26 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-09 18:29 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-02-09 18:32 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-09 18:33 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-09 20:29 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-02-09 18:35 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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