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From: John Wiegley <jwiegley@gmail.com>
To: Leo Liu <sdl.web@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Change in files.el
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2017 09:01:52 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2y3xrwcof.fsf@newartisans.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m17f5b275j.fsf@gmail.com> (Leo Liu's message of "Tue, 31 Jan 2017 12:19:20 +0800")

>>>>> "LL" == Leo Liu <sdl.web@gmail.com> writes:

LL> On 2017-01-30 10:58 -0500, John Wiegley wrote:
>> Can add-function infer that a -function variable with a value of "nil" is
>> equivalent to it having a value of 'ignore?

LL> It doesn't make sense for add-function to default to #'ignore. In many
LL> cases `nil' of these variables doesn't mean #'ignore.

I see, that is a bit unfortunate. The value of having a default would be to
know what the default behavior is, without having to track down the logic.

-- 
John Wiegley                  GPG fingerprint = 4710 CF98 AF9B 327B B80F
http://newartisans.com                          60E1 46C4 BD1A 7AC1 4BA2



  reply	other threads:[~2017-01-31 14:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-01-28  2:16 Change in files.el Richard Stallman
2017-01-28  2:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-01-28  9:10   ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-01-28 14:40     ` Stefan Monnier
2017-01-28 14:57       ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-01-28 15:31         ` Dmitry Gutov
2017-01-28 16:12           ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-01-28 15:40         ` Stefan Monnier
2017-01-28 16:08           ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-01-28 16:51             ` Stefan Monnier
2017-01-28 17:11               ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-01-28 17:22                 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-01-28 17:30                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-01-28 17:42                     ` Stefan Monnier
2017-01-28 17:53                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-01-29 18:59                         ` John Wiegley
2017-01-30  3:57                           ` Leo Liu
2017-01-30 15:58                             ` John Wiegley
2017-01-31  4:19                               ` Leo Liu
2017-01-31 14:01                                 ` John Wiegley [this message]
2017-01-31 14:46                               ` Stefan Monnier
2017-01-31 16:21                                 ` Kaushal Modi
2017-01-31 18:40                                   ` Default value of variables named `*-function' [was: Change in files.el] Drew Adams
2017-02-01  8:35                                     ` Andreas Röhler
2017-01-28 18:41                       ` Change in files.el Mark Oteiza
2017-01-28 19:37                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-02-01  3:49                           ` Mark Oteiza
2017-02-01  7:33                             ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2017-02-01 12:56                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-02-01 14:12                                 ` Kaushal Modi
2017-01-29  0:21       ` Richard Stallman
2017-02-04  9:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-02-04 23:52   ` Richard Stallman

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