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From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: `set-variable' should use :set
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 10:29:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87eibiiqaa.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 8762wulmra.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp

"Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org> writes:

> Drew Adams writes:
>
>  > That last part is a bit presumptuous, IMHO.  Perhaps it means to
>  > say only that `set-variable' is largely obsolete (although I don't
>  > see why it would be - it is quick; Customize is not).
>
> You've simply identified an optimization that isn't premature.
> Congratulations!
>
> OK, point made.  But I don't really understand why customize-variable
> needs to be any slower than set-variable.
>
>  > ("Obsolete" is not a verb BTW (e.g. "obsoleted"), although it is
>  > true that you can verb any noun.)
>
> Don't tell me that, submit a patch. ;-)

<URL:http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/obsolete>


2obsolete
vt
obsolet·ed obsolet·ing
Definition of OBSOLETE
: to make obsolete
First Known Use of OBSOLETE
1640

-- 
David Kastrup




  reply	other threads:[~2010-10-22  8:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-21 17:25 `set-variable' should use :set Drew Adams
2010-10-22  0:34 ` Miles Bader
2010-10-22  0:48   ` Miles Bader
2010-10-22  1:11     ` Drew Adams
2010-10-22  2:20       ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-10-22  4:34         ` Drew Adams
2010-10-22  7:17           ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-10-22  8:29             ` David Kastrup [this message]
2010-10-22 10:43           ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-10-22 13:40             ` Drew Adams
2010-10-22 14:02               ` David Kastrup
2010-10-22 22:42               ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-10-23  4:48                 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-10-23 16:13                   ` Drew Adams
2010-10-23 17:47                     ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-10-23 18:44                       ` Glenn Morris
2010-10-23 19:01                       ` Jambunathan K
2010-10-24 16:15                       ` Chong Yidong
2010-10-22 14:01           ` Stefan Monnier
2010-10-22 16:03             ` Drew Adams
2010-10-22  7:42         ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-10-22  7:39       ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-10-22  8:16         ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-10-22  9:46           ` Eli Zaretskii

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