From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: rms@gnu.org, drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: interactive-p and called-interactively-p
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:58:47 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <873a77v31k.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvtyzn4k5x.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Mon, 31 Aug 2009 19:56:43 -0400")
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>> but I think the important point is that its name fits its meaning.
>> The name interactive-p does not correspond to its meaning, and users
>> very often guess wrong about what it does.
>
> This is clearly true, but while confusion has been common, it hasn't
> been an actual problem either. And in any case, as I mentioned, we
> should rather encourage programmers to stay avoid from both of
> those functions.
I think the status quo is acceptable. We already state, in the
doc-string of called-interactively-p, that you can do the same thing
with an interactive spec. Further tinkering is just noise.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-01 1:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-15 23:00 interactive-p and called-interactively-p Drew Adams
2009-08-16 5:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-08-16 13:29 ` Chong Yidong
2009-08-16 14:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-08-16 15:51 ` Drew Adams
2009-08-16 21:23 ` Richard Stallman
2009-08-16 22:40 ` Drew Adams
2009-08-17 5:38 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-08-18 4:57 ` Richard Stallman
2009-08-18 7:08 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-08-29 21:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-08-31 22:21 ` Richard Stallman
2009-08-31 23:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-09-01 1:58 ` Chong Yidong [this message]
2009-09-01 5:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-09-01 21:20 ` Richard Stallman
2009-09-01 23:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-09-03 13:48 ` Richard Stallman
2009-09-03 14:11 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-09-03 21:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-09-04 1:21 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-09-04 13:11 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-09-04 3:04 ` Glenn Morris
2009-09-04 4:44 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-09-03 16:27 MON KEY
2004-12-02 2:16 Luc Teirlinck
2004-12-03 3:41 ` Richard Stallman
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