From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Alan Mackenzie Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Lisp primitives and their calling of the change hooks Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2018 19:46:22 +0000 Message-ID: <20180111194622.GB5453@ACM> References: <20180109195357.GA3869@ACM> <20180110184521.GB6175@ACM> <20180110194839.GC6175@ACM> <20180110210334.GD6175@ACM> <20180111173904.GA5453@ACM> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1515700319 24924 195.159.176.226 (11 Jan 2018 19:51:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2018 19:51:59 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mutt/1.7.2 (2016-11-26) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 11 20:51:55 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eZit8-0005af-0D for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Jan 2018 20:51:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37867 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eZiv7-0005cP-Hj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Jan 2018 14:53:49 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55287) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eZit8-0003uy-RM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Jan 2018 14:51:47 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eZit4-00074q-VG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Jan 2018 14:51:46 -0500 Original-Received: from colin.muc.de ([193.149.48.1]:50391 helo=mail.muc.de) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eZit4-00072v-JZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Jan 2018 14:51:42 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 23753 invoked by uid 3782); 11 Jan 2018 19:51:41 -0000 Original-Received: from acm.muc.de (p548C73AF.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [84.140.115.175]) by colin.muc.de (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Thu, 11 Jan 2018 20:51:39 +0100 Original-Received: (qmail 6519 invoked by uid 1000); 11 Jan 2018 19:46:22 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.1.12 (Macallan) X-Primary-Address: acm@muc.de X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: FreeBSD 9.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 193.149.48.1 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:221856 Archived-At: Hello, Stefan. On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 14:35:06 -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > >> I'm very far from convinced about the "elaborate special handling". > > Well, you agree that there're no advantages to having unbalanced change > > hooks, > No I don't. You don't? What, then, might those advantages be, and in what conditions would those advantages outweigh the known disadvantages in allowing unbalanced change hooks? > Stefan -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).