From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r109327: Generalize INTERNAL_FIELD between buffers, keyboards and frames. Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2012 05:29:19 +0900 Message-ID: <87ehnl3www.fsf@catnip.gol.com> References: <50191B54.2070705@yandex.ru> <5019FE2D.2060005@yandex.ru> <501B8C48.3000704@yandex.ru> <501C1F4D.5010007@cs.ucla.edu> <501E8A3E.1090708@yandex.ru> <501E9000.10301@cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1344198576 16752 80.91.229.3 (5 Aug 2012 20:29:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2012 20:29:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Dmitry Antipov , Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 05 22:29:36 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Sy7S5-0000oI-Ul for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Aug 2012 22:29:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39790 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sy7S5-0003wG-90 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Aug 2012 16:29:29 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:46910) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sy7S3-0003vJ-0a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Aug 2012 16:29:27 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sy7S1-0003Av-RD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Aug 2012 16:29:26 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp11.dentaku.gol.com ([203.216.5.73]:49116) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sy7S1-0003An-ID; Sun, 05 Aug 2012 16:29:25 -0400 Original-Received: from 218.33.195.114.eo.eaccess.ne.jp ([218.33.195.114] helo=catnip.gol.com) by smtp11.dentaku.gol.com with esmtpa (Dentaku) (envelope-from ) id 1Sy7Rw-0000Ks-G6; Mon, 06 Aug 2012 05:29:20 +0900 Original-Received: by catnip.gol.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 9DC76DFF4; Mon, 6 Aug 2012 05:29:19 +0900 (JST) System-Type: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu In-Reply-To: <501E9000.10301@cs.ucla.edu> (Paul Eggert's message of "Sun, 05 Aug 2012 07:23:44 -0800") Original-Lines: 16 X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV GOL (outbound) X-Abuse-Complaints: abuse@gol.com X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 203.216.5.73 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:152201 Archived-At: Paul Eggert writes: > The main issue is readability. I find it more > readable when the notation "f (x)" in ordinary C code > means that F is a function, instead of some other > construct that cannot possibly be a function. The convention that an UPPERCASE name means "macro with possibly non-function-like semantics" is a very well established idiom in C tho... -miles -- Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. Hence the custom among the Scythians of plucking out a cynic's eyes to improve his vision.