From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: mode-line-format - local variableness
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2009 06:37:20 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878wmdihv3.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: jwv7i1xzzvo.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
> There are reasonable choices for these questions, but no matter what you
> choose, you will sooner or later find a situation where it doesn't
> actually do what was intended, and furthermore, the implementation tends
> to be painful and costly, which is a bummer since it's supposed to be
> a *very* rare case that's fairly easy to avoid, yet you'll end up paying
> for it all the time.
... and any guarantees we make now may come back to haunt us if we want
to change the way the internal mechanisms work later.
-Miles
--
Accord, n. Harmony.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-06 21:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-05 22:18 mode-line-format - local variableness Drew Adams
2009-04-05 22:50 ` Johan Bockgård
2009-04-05 23:24 ` Miles Bader
2009-04-05 23:29 ` Drew Adams
2009-04-05 23:37 ` Drew Adams
2009-04-06 0:50 ` Miles Bader
2009-04-06 3:05 ` Drew Adams
2009-04-06 1:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-04-06 3:19 ` Drew Adams
2009-04-06 13:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-04-06 21:37 ` Miles Bader [this message]
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