From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: hcz@hczim.de
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: gas-mode.el - Comments welcome
Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 11:07:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86abvlcqeg.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f3lu10$hed$1@sea.gmane.org> (Heike C. Zimmerer's message of "Thu\, 31 May 2007 09\:37\:03 +0200")
"Heike C. Zimmerer" <nospam07q1@gmx.net> writes:
>> - fix naming to use the `gas-' (or `asm-') prefix for vars such as
>> `line-cache'. Provide defvars with docstring explaning what
>> they contain.
>
> The caches are always buffer-local. According to what I learned
> from the documentation, the prefix is only required for globals.
Buffer-local variables have global bindings (they don't go away after
a function finishes). You are confusing them with let-bound
variables.
> I sometimes even deliberately removed the prefix from symbols to
> emphasize on its local binding (as here). Anything wrong with it?
Yes. Conflict with similarly named variables elsewhere.
--
David Kastrup
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-31 9:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-30 14:43 gas-mode.el - Comments welcome Heike C. Zimmerer
2007-05-30 18:23 ` Masatake YAMATO
2007-05-30 22:18 ` Heike C. Zimmerer
2007-05-31 4:11 ` Masatake YAMATO
2007-05-30 23:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-05-31 7:37 ` Heike C. Zimmerer
2007-05-31 9:07 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2007-05-31 9:28 ` Heike C. Zimmerer
2007-05-31 17:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-06-01 9:18 ` Johan Bockgård
2007-06-01 13:09 ` Heike C. Zimmerer
2008-07-22 19:27 ` Dan Nicolaescu
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