From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: allout patch - more safe-local-variables, plus autoloads Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 17:12:25 -0400 Message-ID: References: <2cd46e7f0604171211s5ef0e820gebc4e68b2ce2606d@mail.gmail.com> <8764l7m40w.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> <87r73uji3b.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1145481168 32040 80.91.229.2 (19 Apr 2006 21:12:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 21:12:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ken.manheimer@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 19 23:12:46 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FWJye-0004yA-17 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Apr 2006 23:12:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FWJyd-0000Rh-G8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Apr 2006 17:12:43 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FWJyO-0000Q9-3D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Apr 2006 17:12:28 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FWJyM-0000PP-PP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Apr 2006 17:12:27 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FWJyM-0000PA-Dn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Apr 2006 17:12:26 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FWJzX-0000Ad-OU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Apr 2006 17:13:39 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1FWJyL-0006Gn-IV; Wed, 19 Apr 2006 17:12:25 -0400 Original-To: Stefan Monnier In-reply-to: <87r73uji3b.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (message from Stefan Monnier on Wed, 19 Apr 2006 00:39:25 -0400) 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:53103 Archived-At: If we disallow t and want a quick&dirty replacement predicate for boolean values, we can either introduce booleanp (seems like a good predicate to have around anyway) or just use symbolp. symbolp is not correct; a boolean variable can have any Lisp object as its value. If booleanp is mean to mean "is t or nil", that would also be incorrect. I don't see any great need to eliminate t as a value, and certainly not at the cost of any real annoyance.