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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Oleh Krehel <ohwoeowho@gmail.com>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Is it time to remove INTERNAL_FIELD?
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2015 13:14:09 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvvbgm6abn.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r3ra4xgu.fsf@gmail.com> (Oleh Krehel's message of "Thu, 23 Apr 2015 18:32:17 +0200")

> Why is it preferred to type BVAR (foo, name) instead of foo->name?

I can't remember the original motivation, but the basic idea is that
BVAR may (at some point) expand to more code, to handle the fact that
maybe this info can sometimes be stored elsewhere.


        Stefan



  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-04-23 17:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-23  9:55 Is it time to remove INTERNAL_FIELD? Oleh Krehel
2015-04-23 10:08 ` Paul Eggert
2015-04-23 10:10   ` Oleh Krehel
2015-04-23 10:17     ` Paul Eggert
2015-04-23 10:56       ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-23 10:56         ` Oleh Krehel
2015-04-23 11:17           ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-23 11:32             ` Oleh Krehel
2015-04-23 12:01               ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-23 12:05                 ` Oleh Krehel
2015-04-23 12:37                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-25 10:57                     ` Oleh Krehel
2015-04-25 11:28                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-25 14:28                         ` Stefan Monnier
2015-04-25 14:41                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-28  7:39                             ` Oleh Krehel
2015-04-28 13:20                               ` Stefan Monnier
2015-04-28 15:07                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-28 15:11                                 ` Oleh Krehel
2015-04-28 15:23                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-28 18:58                                     ` Oleh Krehel
2015-04-28 19:21                                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-23 11:00       ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-23 13:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-04-23 13:30   ` Oleh Krehel
2015-04-23 13:53     ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-23 14:07       ` Oleh Krehel
2015-04-23 14:50         ` Nicolas Richard
2015-04-23 15:34           ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-24 10:44             ` Nicolas Richard
2015-04-23 15:29         ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-23 16:32           ` Oleh Krehel
2015-04-23 17:00             ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-23 17:09               ` Oleh Krehel
2015-04-23 17:29                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-23 17:14             ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2015-04-23 17:31               ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-23 13:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-04-23 13:33   ` Oleh Krehel

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