From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Allow specifying services as symbols?
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 11:21:06 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mxq8x2bx.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: jwvd3r4ho8m.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org
On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 11:36:00 -0400 Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>> The issue came up as a customization user-side problem and I suggested
>> allowing symbols. Using symbols is consistent with many other Emacs
>> facilities (too many to list) that use symbols to enumerate a small set
>> of choices. It makes customization simpler and less error-prone for
>> software that uses `make-network-process'. It doesn't really cost
SM> We're talking about an argument to a function, so it's not directly
SM> related to customization. IOW if there's a problem with customization,
SM> it can be fixed elsewhere.
OK, let's forget about the patch. There's too many useful cases where a
symbol could be passed to `make-network-process' as the service name and
trigger special behavior, plus there's no real need for changing the
current behavior.
Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-20 16:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-19 18:07 Allow specifying services as symbols? Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-10-19 18:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-10-19 19:09 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-10-19 20:17 ` Chong Yidong
2010-10-19 21:25 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-10-19 21:32 ` Davis Herring
2010-10-19 22:20 ` Chong Yidong
2010-10-19 23:46 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-10-20 15:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-10-20 16:10 ` Chong Yidong
2010-10-20 16:21 ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]
2010-10-20 11:32 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-10-20 11:52 ` Andreas Schwab
2010-10-20 12:29 ` Ted Zlatanov
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