* safe-get
@ 2005-04-20 21:42 Richard Stallman
2005-04-20 23:52 ` safe-get Stefan Monnier
2005-04-21 8:09 ` safe-get Kim F. Storm
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From: Richard Stallman @ 2005-04-20 21:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: emacs-devel
Is there a reason not to make ordinary `get' safe? That would be
simpler for Lisp programmers than introducing safe-get.
The code would be simpler, the manual would be simpler, even
etc/NEWS would be simpler.
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* Re: safe-get
2005-04-20 21:42 safe-get Richard Stallman
@ 2005-04-20 23:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-04-21 19:56 ` safe-get Richard Stallman
2005-04-21 8:09 ` safe-get Kim F. Storm
1 sibling, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Stefan Monnier @ 2005-04-20 23:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: emacs-devel, Kim F.Storm
> Is there a reason not to make ordinary `get' safe? That would be
> simpler for Lisp programmers than introducing safe-get.
> The code would be simpler, the manual would be simpler, even
> etc/NEWS would be simpler.
Agreed. Same thing for safe-plist-get.
BTW, XEmacs has overloaded `get' so that when applied to an overlay it does
overlay-get, ...
Stefan
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread* Re: safe-get
2005-04-20 21:42 safe-get Richard Stallman
2005-04-20 23:52 ` safe-get Stefan Monnier
@ 2005-04-21 8:09 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-04-21 19:56 ` safe-get Richard Stallman
1 sibling, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Kim F. Storm @ 2005-04-21 8:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: emacs-devel
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> Is there a reason not to make ordinary `get' safe?
Not really, except
a) it will not catch errors in the symbol plist.
b) it is slightly slower
> That would be
> simpler for Lisp programmers than introducing safe-get.
> The code would be simpler, the manual would be simpler, even
> etc/NEWS would be simpler.
I will revert my changes, and just make get safe...
But then, why don't we make plist-get safe
and get rid of safe-plist-get, too ?
IIRC, safe-plist-get is new in 22.1, so I don't see any big
problems doing that...
--
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk> http://www.cua.dk
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