From: Miles Bader <miles.bader@necel.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: defvars at compile time
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 11:44:49 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <buoacbpiyce.fsf@dhapc248.dev.necel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zmjqovfj.fsf@olgas.newt.com> (Bill Wohler's message of "Thu, 16 Mar 2006 14:51:12 -0800")
Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com> writes:
> Funny name. Seems like value-if-bound would be more accurate.
Yeah. Or "bound-value".
Emacs is full of slightly bizarre function names, typically where the
original creator only thought of one particular special usage (and named
the function accordingly) but the actual users turned out to treat it
more generally.
Luckily we've got "defalias" to make renaming less painful...
-Miles
--
"Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture
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and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the
future of the world depends." -Oscar Wilde, "The Soul of Man Under Socialism"
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Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-07 0:18 New GNOME icons Bill Wohler
2006-03-10 23:15 ` Bill Wohler
2006-03-10 23:56 ` Reiner Steib
2006-03-11 1:23 ` Bill Wohler
2006-03-11 1:29 ` Miles Bader
2006-03-11 12:48 ` Reiner Steib
2006-03-11 23:47 ` Miles Bader
2006-03-12 0:38 ` Bill Wohler
2006-03-13 11:52 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
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2006-03-15 22:52 ` defvars at compile time Katsumi Yamaoka
2006-03-16 18:31 ` Kevin Rodgers
2006-03-16 22:27 ` Johan Bockgård
2006-03-16 22:51 ` Bill Wohler
2006-03-17 2:44 ` Miles Bader [this message]
2006-03-17 16:32 ` Richard Stallman
2006-03-20 6:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-03-22 1:59 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2006-03-22 2:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-03-28 1:41 ` Bill Wohler
2006-03-28 19:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-03-29 23:01 ` Richard Stallman
2006-03-28 19:33 ` Richard Stallman
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2005-09-16 10:48 Juanma Barranquero
2005-09-16 11:18 ` David Kastrup
2005-09-16 13:25 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-09-16 14:59 ` David Kastrup
2005-09-16 15:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-09-16 15:51 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-09-17 4:57 ` Richard M. Stallman
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