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: featurep Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 11:44:03 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <200203211644.g2LGi3417793@rum.cs.yale.edu> References: <200203190844.g2J8iOq09224@wijiji.santafe.edu> <5xg02wd6cm.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> <200203210904.g2L94HA10124@wijiji.santafe.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1016729141 14435 127.0.0.1 (21 Mar 2002 16:45:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 16:45:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: jasonr@gnu.org, storm@cua.dk, 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 16o5h6-0003ki-00 for ; Thu, 21 Mar 2002 17:45:40 +0100 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16o5nO-00012Z-00 for ; Thu, 21 Mar 2002 17:52:11 +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 16o5gj-0000R2-00; Thu, 21 Mar 2002 11:45:17 -0500 Original-Received: from rum.cs.yale.edu ([128.36.229.169]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16o5fZ-0000LR-00; Thu, 21 Mar 2002 11:44:05 -0500 Original-Received: (from monnier@localhost) by rum.cs.yale.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g2LGi3417793; Thu, 21 Mar 2002 11:44:03 -0500 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.4 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 Original-To: Richard Stallman 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:2098 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:2098 > Having make-network-process doing something other than making a > network process is not a more intuitive solution than featurep. > > That is exactly what bothers me about it. > > Perhaps we can implement use of lists as subfeatures. Then > (featurep 'make-network-process '(:family local)) could be used > instead of (make-network-process :feature :family 'local). I still haven't heard any evidence that (condition-case nil (make-network-process foo bar baz) (unsupported-networking-feature ...do..something..else...)) is not enough and that a separate `featurep' support is required. Stefan _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel