From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Heerdegen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: master baf1a7a4a0: Turn gv-synthetic-place into a function Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2022 11:41:07 +0200 Message-ID: <87zgeqa0ng.fsf@web.de> References: <835yhkzmn8.fsf@gnu.org> <878rmfx51p.fsf@web.de> <831qs7zj9e.fsf@gnu.org> <87v8piec78.fsf@web.de> <834jx2xphy.fsf@gnu.org> <878rmenmd4.fsf@web.de> <87sfklgmba.fsf@dataswamp.org> <87edw4bzrp.fsf@web.de> <83y1ucu4k9.fsf@gnu.org> <87y1ub7kjp.fsf@gnus.org> <83wn9vqrxa.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="37292"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:AjcoGDEpj8U9IrN66CPDgUZho/I= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 23 11:55:03 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1obfOg-0009Xi-4Q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 23 Sep 2022 11:55:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53304 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1obfOf-0006bq-3O for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 23 Sep 2022 05:55:01 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:43104) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1obfBQ-0004Op-0a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Sep 2022 05:41:30 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:41466) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1obfBO-0004dK-M7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Sep 2022 05:41:19 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1obfBL-00024t-Uo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Sep 2022 11:41:15 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -13 X-Spam_score: -1.4 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.4 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN=0.25, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.25, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:296032 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: > > I'd prefer > > > > -- Macro: setf [gv val]... > > This macro evaluates VAL and stores it in GV, which must be a > > valid generalized variable form. If there are several GV and > > VAL pairs, the assignments are done sequentially just as with > > ‘setq’. ‘setf’ returns the value of the last VAL. > > VAL stands for "value", and talking about "evaluating a value" makes > little sense, IMO. Indeed. > How about > > This macro evaluates FORM and stores its value in PLACE, ... We could also say (a bit more similar to the first sentence of the `setq' docstring): -- Macro: setf [gv val]... Set each place described by the generalized variable GV to its VAL. ... Michael.