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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: Kurt.Hornik@wu-wien.ac.at, emacs-devel@gnu.org,
	gail@tnp-online.de, jwe@bevo.che.wisc.edu
Subject: Re: [gail@tnp-online.de: octave-mod.el: wrong indentation for "IF",  "FOR", etc.]
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 11:59:33 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1IgMvF-0001Gc-Ps@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <yp8x69xh1f.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (message from Glenn Morris on Thu, 11 Oct 2007 21:23:08 -0400)

    > +(defun octave-re-search-backward-kw (regexp)
    > +  (let ((case-fold-search nil))
    > +    (re-search-backward regexp nil 'move inc)))

    It seems ugly to (ab)use the variable `inc' in this way.

That is true.  It is not clean to inherit a variable
from a calling function without defvar'ing it, and for that
it should have a longer name.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2007-10-12 15:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <E1If3fk-0003hN-Nr@fencepost.gnu.org>
     [not found] ` <18188.40056.604794.828796@mithrandir.hornik.net>
2007-10-10 15:38   ` [gail@tnp-online.de: octave-mod.el: wrong indentation for "IF", "FOR", etc.] John W. Eaton
2007-10-11  5:20     ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-12  1:23     ` Glenn Morris
2007-10-12  1:57       ` John W. Eaton
2007-10-12 15:59       ` Richard Stallman [this message]

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