From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: "Juanma Barranquero" <lekktu@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: (featurep 'multi-tty) => t on Windows
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 21:43:40 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1LBKTk-0007p1-W2@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f7ccd24b0812121550j366bcae9s715ce1c6490e12c3@mail.gmail.com> (lekktu@gmail.com)
> Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2008 00:50:34 +0100
> From: "Juanma Barranquero" <lekktu@gmail.com>
> Cc: pandyacus@sbcglobal.net, cyd@stupidchicken.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> I know. But there's a difference between
>
> (if (fboundp 'whatever)
> (whatever ...))
>
> and
>
> (if (fboundp 'whatever)
> (something-else...))
>
> Checking for a function before using it is clean. Checking for a
> function or a variable, as a way to know whether some "pack" of new
> features are installed, is not.
And how exactly is
(if (featurep 'foo)
(something))
cleaner than the latter?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-13 2:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-03 12:54 (featurep 'multi-tty) => t on Windows Juanma Barranquero
2008-12-03 13:29 ` dhruva
2008-12-10 10:47 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-12-10 14:00 ` Chong Yidong
2008-12-10 14:05 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-12-10 16:16 ` Chong Yidong
2008-12-11 9:47 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-12-11 17:35 ` Chetan Pandya
2008-12-11 23:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-12-11 23:39 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-12-12 12:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-12-12 12:14 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-12-12 12:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-12-12 16:23 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-12-12 23:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-12-12 23:50 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-12-13 2:43 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2008-12-13 6:03 ` mail
2008-12-13 10:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-12-13 11:01 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-12-13 16:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-12-13 16:59 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-12-14 2:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-12-14 3:11 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-12-13 11:40 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-12-13 16:58 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-12-12 4:38 ` Chetan Pandya
2008-12-12 12:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-12-11 23:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-12-11 23:35 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-12-12 11:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-12-12 12:08 ` Juanma Barranquero
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