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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>
Cc: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: deferred-action
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 12:34:58 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvy648zbc2.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinRKCmm2wBLu+aRfr0m2LNMOjCeL8BzUgxq1J05@mail.gmail.com> (Juanma Barranquero's message of "Mon, 21 Mar 2011 15:56:21 +0100")

> I understand that. And no, I don't think it's enough, because each
> piece of code using them is quite  free to do it as it pleases (some
> could use deferred-action-list as a flag, other as a list of items to
> treat, a third as a list of functions to run, etc.), but on the other
> hand, deferred-action-function is intended to contain just a function,
> so there's nowhere explained HOW would several packages coordinate
> their different uses.

That's because that would require a coding convention for its use, and
nobody came up with such a thing.


        Stefan



  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-21 16:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-20  4:16 deferred-action Juanma Barranquero
2011-03-21 14:01 ` deferred-action Stefan Monnier
2011-03-21 14:56   ` deferred-action Juanma Barranquero
2011-03-21 16:34     ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2011-03-21 16:37       ` deferred-action Juanma Barranquero
2011-03-21 17:24         ` deferred-action Stefan Monnier
2011-03-21 20:05           ` deferred-action Juanma Barranquero

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