From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: Emacs-Devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: describe-variable with string arg
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 18:52:20 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvodmj4lpt.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BDEIJAFNGDOAGCJIPKPBKEHECDAA.drew.adams@oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Fri\, 23 Mar 2007 15\:37\:21 -0700")
> That would be friendlier to possible 3rd-party code that might generically
> apply a function such as `describe-variable' to an arg that might be a
> symbol name instead of a symbol.
I see no reason to encourage sloppiness,
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-23 22:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-23 22:37 describe-variable with string arg Drew Adams
2007-03-23 22:52 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2007-03-23 22:57 ` Drew Adams
2007-03-23 23:57 ` Drew Adams
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2007-03-23 23:15 ` Drew Adams
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