From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Creating recursive customization types / widgets
Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2003 23:46:12 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1AROtw-00013j-KM@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <rjk75fo6ir.fsf@sheridan.dina.kvl.dk> (message from Per Abrahamsen on Tue, 02 Dec 2003 11:31:24 +0100)
'lazy' and 'delayed' are good because they describe how the widget
accomplish its task. But I now believe 'recursive' is best, because
it described what the task is. Also
(define-widget 'binary-tree 'recursive ...)
reads well: A binary tree is a recursive datastructure with the
following attributes ...
That use is recursive, but the widget doesn't require you to use
recursion. Its essence is lazy or delayed evaluation. So I think
that should be the name.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-03 4:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-29 16:38 Creating recursive customization types / widgets Per Abrahamsen
2003-11-29 18:34 ` Per Abrahamsen
2003-11-30 20:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-12-01 11:36 ` Per Abrahamsen
2003-12-01 16:35 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2003-12-02 12:37 ` tapsellferrier.co.uk Host name lookup failure Robert J. Chassell
2003-12-01 17:08 ` Creating recursive customization types / widgets Per Abrahamsen
2003-12-02 0:31 ` Juri Linkov
2003-12-02 10:19 ` Per Abrahamsen
2003-12-02 12:46 ` David Kastrup
2003-12-02 13:34 ` Per Abrahamsen
2003-12-02 10:40 ` Per Abrahamsen
2003-12-01 13:36 ` Per Abrahamsen
2003-12-01 16:10 ` Ted Zlatanov
2003-12-01 19:24 ` Per Abrahamsen
2003-12-01 1:45 ` Richard Stallman
2003-12-01 13:27 ` Per Abrahamsen
2003-12-02 4:17 ` Richard Stallman
2003-12-02 10:31 ` Per Abrahamsen
2003-12-03 4:46 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2003-12-03 12:30 ` Per Abrahamsen
2003-12-03 15:26 ` Per Abrahamsen
2003-12-03 19:05 ` Kevin Rodgers
2003-12-02 11:24 ` David Kastrup
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