From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Brent Pappas <pappasbrent@Knights.ucf.edu>
Cc: "emacs-devel@gnu.org" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Thoughts on replacing macros with static inline functions
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2022 09:10:57 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvedu4fgwo.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BN7PR07MB41955BD8B1509EFE774D3961F6059@BN7PR07MB4195.namprd07.prod.outlook.com> (Brent Pappas's message of "Mon, 14 Nov 2022 18:05:15 +0000")
> How interested would the Emacs community be in porting macros to functions?
Most of the macros are there for historical reasons.
We do change macros to functions, for all the reasons you mention.
But we prefer to do it little by little as we touch the
corresponding code.
Sefan
prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-11-15 14:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-11-14 18:05 Thoughts on replacing macros with static inline functions Brent Pappas
2022-11-15 12:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-18 5:05 ` Richard Stallman
2022-11-18 6:19 ` xenodasein--- via Emacs development discussions.
2022-11-18 6:27 ` Po Lu
2022-11-18 6:32 ` xenodasein--- via Emacs development discussions.
2022-11-18 7:29 ` Po Lu
2022-11-18 8:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-18 11:31 ` xenodasein--- via Emacs development discussions.
2022-11-18 11:43 ` Po Lu
2022-11-18 12:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-18 6:59 ` tomas
2022-11-18 7:12 ` xenodasein--- via Emacs development discussions.
2022-11-18 14:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-11-18 16:16 ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2022-11-15 13:49 ` Po Lu
2022-11-15 15:54 ` xenodasein--- via Emacs development discussions.
2022-11-15 14:10 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
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