From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Q: BLV for function slots + BL obarray/hmap for symbol lookup?
Date: Sat, 22 May 2021 18:30:07 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvsg2e4d9d.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AM9PR09MB4977B7AA6F3402061D1A799296289@AM9PR09MB4977.eurprd09.prod.outlook.com> (Arthur Miller's message of "Sat, 22 May 2021 23:46:22 +0200")
> 1. Is there some special reason why BLV are implemented only for value
> slots and not for function slots? Would it be inneficient, too
> complicated, or just considered as not needed?
35 years of experience suggest it's not needed (thank god).
It's quite easy to instead do something like
(defun foo (..)
(call foo-function ..))
and then use a buffer-local setting for `foo-function` to get the same result.
> 2. Would it be possible, not too inneficient, complicated etc, if obarray
> or hashmap, whichever is used for symbol lookup by Emacs, could be defined
> as BLV, so that Emacs would lookup symbols similar as it does for buffer
> local variables?
35 years of experience suggest it's not needed (thank god).
Also, I think this could lead to quite unexpected semantics.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-05-22 22:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-05-22 21:46 Q: BLV for function slots + BL obarray/hmap for symbol lookup? Arthur Miller
2021-05-22 22:30 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2021-05-22 23:31 ` Arthur Miller
2021-05-23 3:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-05-23 9:00 ` Arthur Miller
2021-05-23 15:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-05-23 16:23 ` Arthur Miller
2021-05-29 7:31 ` Arthur Miller
2021-05-29 12:44 ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-05-30 2:57 ` Arthur Miller
2021-05-30 12:44 ` Philipp
2021-05-29 13:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-05-30 2:30 ` Arthur Miller
2021-05-30 2:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-05-30 12:17 ` Arthur Miller
2021-05-29 13:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-05-23 18:22 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2021-05-23 20:23 ` Arthur Miller
2021-05-23 21:41 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2021-05-24 12:37 ` Arthur Miller
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