From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Allow specifying services as symbols? Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 12:10:34 -0400 Message-ID: <874ocghmkl.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: <49549.130.55.132.18.1287523965.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> <8739s19648.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1287594055 5177 80.91.229.12 (20 Oct 2010 17:00:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 17:00:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 20 19:00:54 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P8c1u-0006iE-FY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 19:00:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37348 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P8c1k-0006WP-U7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 13:00:37 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=52398 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P8bqs-0005Wi-Kj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 12:49:23 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P8bFM-0004Sb-1P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 12:10:36 -0400 Original-Received: from pantheon-po26.its.yale.edu ([130.132.50.121]:36532) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P8bFL-0004SV-UP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 12:10:35 -0400 Original-Received: from furry (dhcp128036014158.central.yale.edu [128.36.14.158]) (authenticated bits=0) by pantheon-po26.its.yale.edu (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id o9KGAY8R027585 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Wed, 20 Oct 2010 12:10:34 -0400 Original-Received: by furry (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 8C788C018; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 12:10:34 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Wed, 20 Oct 2010 11:36:00 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-YaleITSMailFilter: Version 1.2c (attachment(s) not renamed) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 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:131900 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: >>>> As more of a philosophical objection than anything, t is a symbol. >>> Hmm, good catch. So's nil. >> True. Perhaps this isn't a good idea after all. It's just come more >> than a few times over the years that people are using 'nntp instead of >> "nntp" and 'imap instead of "imap" and not understanding why they're >> getting errors. > > Maybe signalling a clear error would be a better choice. True enough, but (make-network-process :service 'http) does seem a bit more elispy than (make-network-process :service "http")