From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: `interactive-form` symbol property Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2018 18:19:48 +0300 Message-ID: <83k1qmsxkb.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20180624121111.28772.8847@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <20180624121113.215CF206CC@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <87k1qokxa7.fsf@tcd.ie> <836028tauv.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1529939882 15354 195.159.176.226 (25 Jun 2018 15:18:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2018 15:18:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: contovob@tcd.ie, kfogel@red-bean.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 25 17:17:58 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 1fXTFd-0003s4-G3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Jun 2018 17:17:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47726 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fXTHh-0006Tk-MN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Jun 2018 11:20:05 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40877) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fXTHU-0006Ry-FP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Jun 2018 11:19:53 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fXTHR-0005J7-Lz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Jun 2018 11:19:52 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:41738) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fXTHR-0005J1-Hs; Mon, 25 Jun 2018 11:19:49 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=3512 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1fXTHQ-0004BU-WE; Mon, 25 Jun 2018 11:19:49 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on Mon, 25 Jun 2018 08:32:45 -0400) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:226709 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Cc: contovob@tcd.ie, kfogel@red-bean.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2018 08:32:45 -0400 > > > Any reason you dislike the interactive-form property so much that you > > are willing to promote anything else instead? ;-) > > The main reason is NIH, of course. Of course ;-) > But more generally when we have a mechanism (advice) that provides > a superset of the other (interactive-form), I think it's always > worthwhile to try and see if we really need to keep both. Supersets frequently impose overhead, because they try to solve a more general problem. Don't we have some overhead of this kind in this case?