From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stefan Monnier" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Declarations in macro definitions Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 17:18:53 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <200203192218.g2JMIsY08758@rum.cs.yale.edu> References: <86g02zqsp0.fsf@gerd.dnsq.org> <200203180905.g2I95ic08431@wijiji.santafe.edu> <86y9goxm0l.fsf@gerd.dnsq.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1016576631 7072 127.0.0.1 (19 Mar 2002 22:23:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 22:23:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16nS1H-0001py-00 for ; Tue, 19 Mar 2002 23:23:51 +0100 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16nS6k-00026u-00 for ; Tue, 19 Mar 2002 23:29:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16nS0t-0003kL-00; Tue, 19 Mar 2002 17:23:27 -0500 Original-Received: from rum.cs.yale.edu ([128.36.229.169]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16nRwe-0003EH-00; Tue, 19 Mar 2002 17:19:04 -0500 Original-Received: (from monnier@localhost) by rum.cs.yale.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g2JMIsY08758; Tue, 19 Mar 2002 17:18:54 -0500 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.4 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 Original-To: gerd.moellmann@t-online.de (Gerd Moellmann) Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.5 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:2052 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:2052 > > 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 _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel