From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Allow specifying services as symbols? Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 11:21:06 -0500 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <87mxq8x2bx.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <49549.130.55.132.18.1287523965.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> <8739s19648.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1287593819 3968 80.91.229.12 (20 Oct 2010 16:56:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 16:56:59 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 20 18:56:58 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P8byC-0005LG-Pe for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 18:56:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44729 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P8byB-0003tv-VX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 12:56:56 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=41426 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P8bqL-0001eK-2y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 12:48:49 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P8bTR-0008AT-3K for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 12:25:10 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:50705) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P8bTQ-0008AM-Tr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 12:25:09 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P8bTM-0003d7-GT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 18:25:04 +0200 Original-Received: from 38.98.147.130 ([38.98.147.130]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 18:25:04 +0200 Original-Received: from tzz by 38.98.147.130 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 18:25:04 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 38.98.147.130 X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6; d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:BDLa2vw+UXhZpTWoTY1U0MYYhpk= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:131899 Archived-At: On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 11:36:00 -0400 Stefan Monnier 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