From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juanma Barranquero Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: lexbind ready for merge Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 13:35:56 +0200 Message-ID: References: <4D926EA9.5080509@gmail.com> <4D92AD2B.40502@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1301485013 22324 80.91.229.12 (30 Mar 2011 11:36:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 11:36:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Daniel Colascione Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 30 13:36:48 2011 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 1Q4thg-0006xC-65 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 13:36:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44191 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q4thf-0003Eq-Lb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 07:36:47 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=32970 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q4thW-0003Bv-FX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 07:36:39 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q4thV-0007Td-GB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 07:36:38 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-qy0-f169.google.com ([209.85.216.169]:52593) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q4thV-0007TQ-DO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 07:36:37 -0400 Original-Received: by qyk2 with SMTP id 2so3092443qyk.0 for ; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 04:36:36 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=UZn/O6fvd51G8FikLP/GRwUQy09oPGphWz7EVY3aQpY=; b=SG+IJZpx9A6w8CVxJ/FTZIqZALc+Nn1Siblb54kvqVQ3fetPWnPclFYdaa9NMe/jtq u5Xln5V9JvGTVYsP7nkFuzlJdFuuQrqKzhO3iAYDCIAPVZmA1LW9GdxpgCdms3NqfRKf jGEDxLtknVYpC/VEiDxECfrU53aYNy2gvNTeY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=jGPeK7Wq8SbgpQaQk7455Ydum+evhQI6aQGEZFeMzs6H2jGsUNGmVPtBn2c1VrU6OM 3jPn0KVEAlz0Lg8gYAsydv65cMmPykev5cfc8OppzmndoWa0Zc0uCmx8qjRDKA7yH2mM knGvItxYXj/oBZ67lKBKh4vv46kQUO9Egr0CE= Original-Received: by 10.229.49.209 with SMTP id w17mr841126qcf.170.1301484996371; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 04:36:36 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.229.94.207 with HTTP; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 04:35:56 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4D92AD2B.40502@gmail.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 209.85.216.169 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:137902 Archived-At: On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 06:10, Daniel Colascione wrote: > Even if it's not particularly common, being consistent with Common Lisp a= nd > having fewer special cases are good things. =C2=A0Some people use constru= cts like > this to create module-private variables (which is a bad idea, but that > doesn't stop people doing it.) Why a bad idea? It's a common idiom for private, persistent variables. =C2=A0 =C2=A0 Juanma