From: "Jan D." <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
Cc: storm@cua.dk, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: EWMH package, please review.
Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2003 19:47:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F917CB2.9000001@swipnet.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1A8yIb-0005uw-00@colo.agora-net.com>
Thien-Thi Nguyen wrote:
> From: "Jan D." <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
> Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 06:30:54 +0200
>
> I was told to avoid setq when I learned lisp :-).
>
> but whoever told you that was doing a setq on your brain,
> so why would you trust that advice w/o question?
It was functional programming that we used Lisp for (never reassign variables,
among other things), so it kind of stuck. And there was questions asked at the
time :-).
Jan D.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-18 17:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-12 16:53 EWMH package, please review Jan D.
2003-10-12 22:17 ` Kim F. Storm
2003-10-12 22:54 ` Miles Bader
2003-10-13 4:34 ` Jan D.
2003-10-13 4:30 ` Jan D.
2003-10-13 7:54 ` David Kastrup
2003-10-13 8:43 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2003-10-18 17:47 ` Jan D. [this message]
2003-10-18 18:05 ` David Kastrup
2003-10-18 18:15 ` David Kastrup
2003-10-27 5:56 ` Jan D.
2003-10-13 18:21 ` Richard Stallman
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