From: Anders Lindgren <andlind@gmail.com>
To: Alan Third <alan@idiocy.org>
Cc: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>, Emacs-Devel devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Emacs-24.5-1-universal.dmg for macosx dumps on first keystroke
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2016 11:37:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABr8ebaDj6cd3K9hZtvnLWHBU2T4vbC6x0sFnXs5SaJhQoB0bQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABGBtwnwZx0nSopXWd5Vkz_+FiP+T7sPcmqVggNfL+x4F6akXw@mail.gmail.com>
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> On 26 August 2016 at 19:21, Alan Third <alan@idiocy.org> wrote:
> I've had a look about and am currently none the wiser. Is there a standard
> way of handling this sort of thing in C code? Is it just a case of putting
> some sort of SYMBOLP check in before the variable is used or should we
> be able to handle a string instead of a symbol?
>
I would say that we should ensure that Emacs doesn't crash, but it should
ignore all non-symbol values, like most other configuration variables do.
Allowing strings would make the code more complex and it would make testing
harder etc, without giving us any advantages.
The important thing, however, is that the documentation clearly states that
a symbol should be used.
-- Anders
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Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-25 9:04 Emacs-24.5-1-universal.dmg for macosx dumps on first keystroke Randy Bush
2016-08-25 15:08 ` Alan Third
2016-08-25 19:10 ` Randy Bush
2016-08-25 22:38 ` Alan Third
2016-08-26 0:32 ` Randy Bush
2016-08-26 3:11 ` Randy Bush
2016-08-26 18:21 ` Alan Third
2016-08-26 19:26 ` Robert Weiner
2016-08-29 9:28 ` Alan Third
2016-08-29 9:31 ` Randy Bush
2016-08-29 9:37 ` Anders Lindgren [this message]
2016-08-29 13:19 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-08-29 14:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-08-29 18:37 ` Alan Third
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2016-08-25 10:04 Randy Bush
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