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From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: "Michael Albinus" <michael.albinus@gmx.de>,
	emacs-devel@gnu.org, "Mattias Engdegård" <mattiase@acm.org>
Subject: Re: master 6ebce84ff2b: Use t for non-nil default values in boolean defcustom declarations
Date: Tue, 02 May 2023 10:03:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fs8fyxbv.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ttwz6if5.fsf@igel.home> (Andreas Schwab's message of "Sat, 29 Apr 2023 13:23:42 +0200")

>>>>> On Sat, 29 Apr 2023 13:23:42 +0200, Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> said:

    Andreas> On Apr 29 2023, Michael Albinus wrote:
    >> Mattias Engdegård <mattiase@acm.org> writes:
    >> 
    >> Hi Mattias,
    >> 
    >>> Use t for non-nil default values in boolean defcustom declarations
    >>> 
    >>> +(defcustom viper-ms-style-os-p
    >>> +  (not (not (memq system-type '(ms-dos windows-nt))))
    >> 
    >> I'm just curious. Is there an advantage in using the (not (not ...))
    >> pattern?

    Andreas> Logically, (not (null ...)) would fit better.

    Andreas> (not is just an alias of null, so both are the same, of course).

Yes, but (not (not ...)) maps nicely to '!!' in C

Iʼm very curious if this change will cause any issues :-)

Robert
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  reply	other threads:[~2023-05-02  8:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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     [not found] ` <20230428130816.81449C22A07@vcs2.savannah.gnu.org>
2023-04-29  7:39   ` master 6ebce84ff2b: Use t for non-nil default values in boolean defcustom declarations Michael Albinus
2023-04-29  9:03     ` Mattias Engdegård
2023-04-29 11:07       ` Michael Albinus
2023-04-29 11:23     ` Andreas Schwab
2023-05-02  8:03       ` Robert Pluim [this message]
2023-05-02 16:42         ` Andreas Schwab

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