From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
To: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
Cc: Emacs-Devel devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Making while interruptable
Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2009 07:43:09 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87skh9sa9u.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e01d8a50907061240k399a2d29v989a222632431900@mail.gmail.com> (Lennart Borgman's message of "Mon, 6 Jul 2009 21:40:44 +0200")
Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> writes:
> The idea is that the user with some let bound variable can control how
> every call to `while' handles pending input. If pending input is
> detected then `while' will throw to a catch symbol that is let bound
> by the user.
This is very, very, bad. It _will_ screw up lots of code in hard to
debug and confusing ways.
Using a dedicated form like `while-no-input' is proper thing to do.
-Miles
--
My spirit felt washed. With blood. [Eli Shin, on "The Passion of the Christ"]
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-06 22:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-06 19:40 Making while interruptable Lennart Borgman
2009-07-06 22:43 ` Miles Bader [this message]
2009-07-06 23:02 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-07-06 23:26 ` Miles Bader
2009-07-06 23:46 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-07-06 23:58 ` Miles Bader
2009-07-07 0:17 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-07-11 19:35 ` Stefan Monnier
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