From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Howard Melman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: master baf1a7a4a0: Turn gv-synthetic-place into a function Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2022 09:42:50 -0400 Message-ID: References: <835yhkzmn8.fsf@gnu.org> <878rmfx51p.fsf@web.de> <831qs7zj9e.fsf@gnu.org> <87v8piec78.fsf@web.de> <834jx2xphy.fsf@gnu.org> <878rmenmd4.fsf@web.de> <87sfklgmba.fsf@dataswamp.org> <87edw4bzrp.fsf@web.de> <83y1ucu4k9.fsf@gnu.org> <87y1ub7kjp.fsf@gnus.org> <83wn9vqrxa.fsf@gnu.org> <83bkr6r4s6.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="8383"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.2 (darwin) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:tJ76Bxk2XGHMPbK4QZ8xFpV5mB0= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 23 17:43:28 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1obkps-00025b-56 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 23 Sep 2022 17:43:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40856 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1obkpr-0006ft-2h for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 23 Sep 2022 11:43:27 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:37888) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1obixM-0002qV-QW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Sep 2022 09:43:04 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:60970) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1obixK-0001UW-48 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Sep 2022 09:43:03 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1obixH-0002Ey-JF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Sep 2022 15:42:59 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: 5 X-Spam_score: 0.5 X-Spam_bar: / X-Spam_report: (0.5 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.001, FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD=1, FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN=0.249, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.9, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 23 Sep 2022 11:39:29 -0400 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:296053 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> From: Howard Melman >> Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2022 15:55:03 -0400 >> >> For me, I'm still not completely clear if "generalized >> variable" is exactly the same as "place" and if "generalized >> variable form" is the same as "place form". That's what I'd >> like to see clarity on and if they are the same, just use >> one term. > > They are the same thing. Thanks. Then I think using just one term is clearer and I agree with Lars about avoiding "place" as much as possible. I think GV would be a clearer parameter name than PLACE. -- Howard