From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, "Kim F.Storm" <storm@cua.dk>
Subject: Re: safe-get
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 19:52:00 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871x95xb6e.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1DOMxc-0004fa-I7@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Wed, 20 Apr 2005 17:42:16 -0400")
> Is there a reason not to make ordinary `get' safe? That would be
> simpler for Lisp programmers than introducing safe-get.
> The code would be simpler, the manual would be simpler, even
> etc/NEWS would be simpler.
Agreed. Same thing for safe-plist-get.
BTW, XEmacs has overloaded `get' so that when applied to an overlay it does
overlay-get, ...
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-20 23:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-04-20 21:42 safe-get Richard Stallman
2005-04-20 23:52 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2005-04-21 19:56 ` safe-get Richard Stallman
2005-04-21 8:09 ` safe-get Kim F. Storm
2005-04-21 19:56 ` safe-get Richard Stallman
2005-04-21 23:47 ` safe-get Kim F. Storm
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