From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
rms@gnu.org
Subject: Re: allout patch - more safe-local-variables, plus autoloads
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 17:09:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <85mzefoti5.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2cd46e7f0604210802t28837d4r7aef3d3231a26ea3@mail.gmail.com> (Ken Manheimer's message of "Fri, 21 Apr 2006 11:02:51 -0400")
"Ken Manheimer" <ken.manheimer@gmail.com> writes:
> in many cases, the qualifying criteria is already present, in the form
> of the custom-type information:
>
> seems to me we're heading down the road of duplicating the mechanisms
> of the custom type system, and that we should be using it. i strongly
> suspect that the custom types of customizable variables are
> appropriate as safety criteria in many cases, as well. we wouldn't
> want to assume that, but i suspect it would be very useful to make it
> easy for authors to use the custom-type criteria for this purpose.
I don't see that. If a variable can be dangerous, I think it very
unlikely that all uses conforming to its customization type would be
harmless.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-04-21 15:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-04-17 19:11 allout patch - more safe-local-variables, plus autoloads Ken Manheimer
2006-04-18 12:57 ` Richard Stallman
2006-04-18 13:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-04-19 4:17 ` Richard Stallman
2006-04-19 4:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-04-19 21:12 ` Richard Stallman
2006-04-20 2:47 ` Luc Teirlinck
2006-04-20 17:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-04-21 13:07 ` Richard Stallman
2006-04-21 15:02 ` Ken Manheimer
2006-04-21 15:09 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2006-04-21 15:39 ` Ken Manheimer
2006-04-21 17:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-04-24 21:19 ` Ken Manheimer
2006-04-19 23:08 ` Ken Manheimer
2006-04-20 10:35 ` Richard Stallman
2006-04-20 18:49 ` autoloads for safe-local-variables (was: allout patch - more safe-local-variables, plus autoloads) Reiner Steib
2006-04-20 19:52 ` autoloads for safe-local-variables (was: allout patch - moresafe-local-variables, " Stuart D. Herring
2006-04-21 13:07 ` autoloads for safe-local-variables (was: allout patch - more safe-local-variables, " Richard Stallman
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