From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Evil defvars in org.el Date: Mon, 07 May 2012 10:57:27 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87k411g8xa.fsf@gnu.org> <877gx1pv19.fsf@gnu.org> <87vckls01f.fsf@gnu.org> <77ehr96ty6.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <874ns4sidf.fsf@gnu.org> <0u1un0cu4b.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1336402669 9890 80.91.229.3 (7 May 2012 14:57:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 7 May 2012 14:57:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Chong Yidong , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 07 16:57:46 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SRPNe-000896-VS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 May 2012 16:57:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52941 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SRPNe-00011d-3f for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 May 2012 10:57:42 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:45930) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SRPNW-00011H-Qu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 May 2012 10:57:40 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SRPNV-0004HL-9M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 May 2012 10:57:34 -0400 Original-Received: from chene.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.20]:58109) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SRPNS-0004Gu-PB; Mon, 07 May 2012 10:57:30 -0400 Original-Received: from fmsmemgm.homelinux.net (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by chene.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id q47EvROj018961; Mon, 7 May 2012 10:57:27 -0400 Original-Received: by fmsmemgm.homelinux.net (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 4AE68AEC0E; Mon, 7 May 2012 10:57:27 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Glenn Morris's message of "Sat, 05 May 2012 16:00:40 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-NAI-Spam-Flag: NO X-NAI-Spam-Threshold: 5 X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 1 Rules triggered RV4215=0 X-NAI-Spam-Version: 2.2.0.9309 : core <4215> : streams <753682> : uri <1108544> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 132.204.246.20 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:150351 Archived-At: > Then the conclusion I'll take away from this is that there is no need to > make any changes. Pretty much: we should try and get rid of those non-prefixed dynamic vars (e.g. by adding a prefix) and we should work even harder to try and avoid introducing more of them. But several of the ones that are out there will have to stay because fixing them is likely to do more harm (e.g. by inconveniencing users) than leaving them as they are. Stefan