From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: bruce.connor.am@gmail.com, emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: add-hook and defvar
Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2015 13:05:36 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2fba39e3-171e-49f8-b49a-61349cd93256@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAdUY-Kn_VOOASJGh8WN5cc8jY1kmXJ5GpG=JDzYDahbOkzmfg@mail.gmail.com>
> The big disadvantage is that it's not backwards compatible. Any code
> out there that relies on the variable being set by `add-hook' will
> break.
From that alone it does not sound like a good idea to me. `add-hook'
has been around forever. The amount of 3rd-party code that calls it
and expects the longstanding behavior must be non-neglible.
Just one opinion.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-02-21 21:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-02-21 19:55 add-hook and defvar Artur Malabarba
2015-02-21 21:05 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2015-02-21 22:35 ` Robin Templeton
2015-02-23 5:00 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-02-22 19:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-02-23 5:10 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-02-23 22:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-02-24 6:29 ` Philipp Stephani
2015-02-25 2:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-03-05 20:28 ` Philipp Stephani
2015-03-05 21:45 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-03-06 19:05 ` Philipp Stephani
2015-03-06 20:27 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-03-10 2:14 ` Stefan Monnier
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