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: The purpose of makunbound Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2015 19:56:52 -0500 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1424393825 860 80.91.229.3 (20 Feb 2015 00:57:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2015 00:57:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Kelly Dean Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 20 01:56:59 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YObtq-0001UF-5f for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Feb 2015 01:56:58 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58685 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YObtp-0004CG-7k for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Feb 2015 19:56:57 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55712) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YObtm-0004Bz-30 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Feb 2015 19:56:54 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YObtl-0003c0-6n for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Feb 2015 19:56:54 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:51006) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YObtl-0003bv-46 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Feb 2015 19:56:53 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YObtk-0002CC-Jz; Thu, 19 Feb 2015 19:56:52 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Kelly Dean on Thu, 19 Feb 2015 10:45:17 +0000) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:183311 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > So, I propose a global search/replace in the source code of > ⌜Qunbound⌝ to ⌜Qvoid⌝. Maybe you'll think that in some places, it > really makes more sense to interpret it as «unbound», not > «void». However, that would be inconsistent, if makunbound is > allowed to function on non-global (i.e. let-bound or buffer-local) > variables. I don't see an inconsistency. I think the term "void" is fine with the existing behavior. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.