From: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>,
Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>,
Emacs-Devel devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: `set-variable' should use :set
Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2010 00:42:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTinc1qbPwZ6AuoD-1pqHwU4Q=MNT0ezs=-hzP0QV@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4EEEE63344BB4696B708EE3C3A8BE349@us.oracle.com>
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 15:40, Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> wrote:
> The first of those URLs claims that as a verb it is (only) transitive ("You
> obsoleted the bike"). The second of those claims that as a verb it is (only)
> intransitive ("You obsoleted, but the bike obsoleted first").
First one is more modern.
> And as I said (quite earnestly), you _can_ verb any noun. There is no Academie
> Anglaise[*]; we take a different view of language (and dictionaries).
I know.
> Most important is clarity, and I find "However, this feature is largely
> obsoleted by `defcustom'" quite clear as far as it goes (it doesn't say why or
> how).
I find it quite clear too.
Juanma
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-22 22:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-21 17:25 `set-variable' should use :set Drew Adams
2010-10-22 0:34 ` Miles Bader
2010-10-22 0:48 ` Miles Bader
2010-10-22 1:11 ` Drew Adams
2010-10-22 2:20 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-10-22 4:34 ` Drew Adams
2010-10-22 7:17 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-10-22 8:29 ` David Kastrup
2010-10-22 10:43 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-10-22 13:40 ` Drew Adams
2010-10-22 14:02 ` David Kastrup
2010-10-22 22:42 ` Juanma Barranquero [this message]
2010-10-23 4:48 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-10-23 16:13 ` Drew Adams
2010-10-23 17:47 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-10-23 18:44 ` Glenn Morris
2010-10-23 19:01 ` Jambunathan K
2010-10-24 16:15 ` Chong Yidong
2010-10-22 14:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-10-22 16:03 ` Drew Adams
2010-10-22 7:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-10-22 7:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-10-22 8:16 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-10-22 9:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
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