From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Customize Rogue Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 13:07:38 +0100 Organization: University of Duisburg, Germany Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <84y93kg54l.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> References: <20030309185419.2506.LEKTU@terra.es> <200303091825.MAA13028@eel.dms.auburn.edu> <200303111907.h2BJ7fI8012285@rum.cs.yale.edu> <200303120126.TAA15006@eel.dms.auburn.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1047472325 31106 80.91.224.249 (12 Mar 2003 12:32:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 12:32:05 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 12 13:31:59 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 18t5Om-00084r-00 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 13:31:56 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18t5m0-0005az-00 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 13:55:56 +0100 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 18t5PL-0000P3-00 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 07:32:31 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18t5Oo-0000EN-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 07:31:58 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18t5Nv-0008DO-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 07:31:04 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18t5IO-0005l9-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 07:25:20 -0500 Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18t5Ha-0007a8-00 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 13:24:30 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Received: from news by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18t5Ha-0007Zs-00 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 13:24:30 +0100 Original-Lines: 13 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.090016 (Oort Gnus v0.16) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:EP+LHQ/DOMmiErN8m+YPQiUYjIM= 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:12303 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:12303 Luc Teirlinck writes: > But I guess it is much too late to enforce anything like this, even if > it were deemed desirable. It could be stated as a desirable goal, and then slowly all uses of Customize could be changed in that direction. It seems that the Emacs Lisp way is to have coding conventions rather than enforecements, and that seemed to have worked well so far. So why should it fail in this case? -- A preposition is not a good thing to end a sentence with.