From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: rudalics@gmx.at, cyd@stupidchicken.com,
lennart.borgman@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Undo-limit default
Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2008 14:59:18 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv8wqqwidk.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1L9koW-0001ml-5J@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard M. Stallman's message of "Mon, 08 Dec 2008 13:26:36 -0500")
> - Why use an alist rather than a list.
> I think Joe Arceneaux did it that way just to have parallel calling
> conventions for several functions.
I meant in the new code, not in remove-text-properties.
> It would be possible to implement `remove-list-of-text-properties' by
> consing up an alist and calling `remove-text-properties', but that
> would be wasteful consing. The inverse would also be wasteful
> consing.
The current duplication of code (worse yet: it's not actually identical)
is a problem. I'd rather have some extra consing (and just mark the
consing one as obsolete). And I'm pretty sure we can also remove the
duplication without adding extra consing.
Stefan
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-08 19:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-07 1:35 Undo-limit default Chong Yidong
2008-12-07 2:06 ` Michael Ekstrand
2008-12-07 2:12 ` Lennart Borgman
2008-12-07 8:15 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-12-07 13:02 ` martin rudalics
2008-12-07 13:10 ` Lennart Borgman
2008-12-07 13:20 ` martin rudalics
2008-12-07 14:32 ` Chong Yidong
2008-12-07 14:53 ` Chong Yidong
2008-12-08 11:48 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-12-07 14:59 ` martin rudalics
2008-12-07 15:07 ` Chong Yidong
2008-12-07 17:04 ` martin rudalics
2008-12-07 20:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-12-08 18:26 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-12-08 19:59 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
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