From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: defvar vs setqif..
Date: 20 May 2002 09:03:06 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87hel3sn2d.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ap3elg77tqj.fsf@poynting.umd.edu>
"D. Goel" <deego@glue.umd.edu> writes:
> If there was a special-form that did exactly what defvar does, hopefully
> people would stop using defvar when they didn't mean to...
The way they're using defvar is correct.
It would be much better to fix the definition-finding functions to
prefer defvars that initialize the variable over those that don't, since
the `real' definition almost always initializes the value (and should).
> So i was wondering is a special-form like 'setqif' could be provided
> whose only difference from 'defvar' is in a name...
That name would be wrong, because the usage of defvar you're
complaining about doesn't set the variable at all.
In any case, we should just make defvar work correctly.
-Miles
--
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that in the end its factories produced not goods but bads: finished products
less valuable than the raw materials they were made from.' [The Economist]
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-05-20 0:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-05-19 20:44 defvar vs setqif D. Goel
2002-05-19 20:59 ` Colin Walters
2002-05-20 0:05 ` Miles Bader
2002-05-20 19:08 ` D. Goel
2002-05-20 19:41 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2002-05-20 19:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-05-21 13:13 ` D. Goel
2002-05-20 20:05 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-05-20 21:33 ` Richard Stallman
2002-05-20 0:03 ` Miles Bader [this message]
2002-05-20 19:00 ` D. Goel
2002-05-20 19:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-05-20 19:40 ` D. Goel
2002-05-20 23:15 ` Miles Bader
2002-05-21 13:18 ` D. Goel
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