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From: "Stefan Monnier" <monnier+gnu/emacs@RUM.cs.yale.edu>
Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Declarations in macro definitions
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 17:18:53 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200203192218.g2JMIsY08758@rum.cs.yale.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 86y9goxm0l.fsf@gerd.dnsq.org

> > I like the the idea of putting this info in a macro definition, but I
> > don't think `declare' is a good name for it.  That name is too general
> > to fit this rather specific meaning.
> 
> (But it's familiar to Lisp programmers for a long time...)

Agreed.

> > I would rather imitate `interactive' and define separate no-op
> > functions for these purposes.  The things that want to use them
> > can search the macro definition for them.
> > 
> > (ISTR that someone was implementing this for edebug a few months
> > ago--in fact, I thought it had been installed already.
> 
> In that case I guess my patch won't be needed.

I don't think that there is anything already installed that does what
you patch does.  Maybe someone has been working on this, but at least
I haven't heard anything conclusive.


	Stefan


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  reply	other threads:[~2002-03-19 22:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-03-17 12:34 Declarations in macro definitions Gerd Moellmann
2002-03-18  9:05 ` Richard Stallman
2002-03-19 21:53   ` Gerd Moellmann
2002-03-19 22:18     ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2002-03-20 12:11       ` Gerd Moellmann
2002-03-20 13:44     ` Juanma Barranquero
2002-03-21  9:04     ` Richard Stallman
2002-03-21 11:12       ` Gerd Moellmann

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