From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Boruch Baum <boruch_baum@gmx.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: adding to emacs coding standard / formatting
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2020 01:11:54 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1kUjwA-0000hp-TB@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201019031002.iulr45ztrkwsiqlo@E15-2016.optimum.net> (message from Boruch Baum on Sun, 18 Oct 2020 23:10:02 -0400)
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> Also, this is an opportunity to address a pet peeve: I occasionally see
> code either defining keybindings to lambda functions, or setting lambda
> functions as elements of function lists (eg. lists of hook functions).
> I'd like to propose that those uses be banned because of their
> difficulty to modify.
I think we recommend not doing that. Maybe we should say this also in
tips.texi. Want to propose a patch?
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Dr Richard Stallman
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-20 5:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-19 3:10 adding to emacs coding standard / formatting Boruch Baum
2020-10-19 9:28 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-10-19 15:37 ` Drew Adams
2020-10-19 14:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-10-19 14:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-19 19:59 ` Boruch Baum
2020-10-19 20:07 ` Drew Adams
2020-10-21 4:37 ` Richard Stallman
2020-10-21 14:46 ` Drew Adams
2020-10-20 5:11 ` Richard Stallman
2020-10-20 5:11 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2020-10-20 5:55 ` Boruch Baum
2020-10-20 8:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-20 9:30 ` Jean Louis
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