From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: safe-get Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 19:52:00 -0400 Message-ID: <871x95xb6e.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1114042814 26356 80.91.229.2 (21 Apr 2005 00:20:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 00:20:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, "Kim F.Storm" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 21 02:20:12 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DOPPu-00037z-6a for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Apr 2005 02:19:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DOPUW-0002Y1-1A for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Apr 2005 20:24:24 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DOPSe-0001Qg-RO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Apr 2005 20:22:28 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DOPSd-0001Px-6W for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Apr 2005 20:22:28 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DOPSd-0000to-0w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Apr 2005 20:22:27 -0400 Original-Received: from [209.226.175.74] (helo=tomts20-srv.bellnexxia.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DOPOM-0007Um-TT; Wed, 20 Apr 2005 20:18:03 -0400 Original-Received: from alfajor ([67.68.216.125]) by tomts20-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.10 201-253-122-130-110-20040306) with ESMTP id <20050421001529.PUMF8412.tomts20-srv.bellnexxia.net@alfajor>; Wed, 20 Apr 2005 20:15:29 -0400 Original-Received: by alfajor (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B3C07D73A2; Wed, 20 Apr 2005 19:52:00 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Wed, 20 Apr 2005 17:42:16 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:36216 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:36216 > 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