From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Custom dependencies Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2003 11:05:02 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <84brziu18h.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> References: <8465pvpnhy.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> <200304041519.h34FJa9n007445@rum.cs.yale.edu> <84a3e0qv3x.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> <200304042033.h34KXwoB008300@rum.cs.yale.edu> <84k7e9t05t.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> <200304062055.h36KtUNd019785@rum.cs.yale.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1049706955 12992 80.91.224.249 (7 Apr 2003 09:15:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2003 09:15:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 07 11:15:52 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 192Sif-0003Kw-00 for ; Mon, 07 Apr 2003 11:15:13 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 192Sm6-0006I1-00 for ; Mon, 07 Apr 2003 11:18:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 192SgS-00082S-0C for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Mon, 07 Apr 2003 05:12:56 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 192Sfb-0006sX-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Apr 2003 05:12:03 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 192Sca-0005PV-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Apr 2003 05:08:57 -0400 Original-Received: from mailout03.sul.t-online.com ([194.25.134.81]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 192Sau-0004or-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Apr 2003 05:07:12 -0400 Original-Received: from fwd10.sul.t-online.de by mailout03.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 192Sas-0002H2-08; Mon, 07 Apr 2003 11:07:10 +0200 Original-Received: from lucy (520080024987-0001@[80.135.121.173]) by fmrl10.sul.t-online.com with esmtp id 192Sae-1VvqoCC; Mon, 7 Apr 2003 11:06:56 +0200 Original-Received: by lucy (Postfix, from userid 1003) id 5C19328859; Mon, 7 Apr 2003 11:05:02 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: "Stefan Monnier" In-Reply-To: <200304062055.h36KtUNd019785@rum.cs.yale.edu> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Sun, 06 Apr 2003 16:55:30 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090018 (Oort Gnus v0.18) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-Sender: 520080024987-0001@t-dialin.net X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:12945 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:12945 "Stefan Monnier" writes: > You don't understand: the expression is evaluated once and for all > when setting the variable. Which is why dependencies might need to > be handled: to reset the var when things it refers to are changed. Oh, boy, I was quite stubborn-headed, wasn't I. Okay, now you got it through my thick skull. And now I understand the remark why :set-after won't work. But it seems that in this case, Custom itself could just follow the chain of symbols, couldn't it? -- A preposition is not a good thing to end a sentence with.