From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Warning compiling obarray.el on master
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2017 14:47:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3k27m3ddc.fsf@stories> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83fuiayaoa.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 18 Mar 2017 15:30:29 +0200")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> In the longer term, maybe we should rename `obarray` to something more
>> descriptive and less likely to collide with a local var.
>> Maybe `default-obarray` or `global-obarray` or
>> `global-identifier-obarray`?
>
> Perhaps, but the danger of clashing names doesn't go away with these
> measures, it just gets lower.
And not using the optional OBARRAY parameter in `intern' was marked as
obsolete a few years ago. I think that was a mistake, but changing all
the code that says (intern "foo" obarray) now to
(intern "foo" global-identifier-obarray) wouldn't be, er, optimal, either.
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-03-18 13:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-03-17 8:59 Warning compiling obarray.el on master Eli Zaretskii
2017-03-18 12:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-03-18 13:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-03-18 13:47 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2017-03-18 14:00 ` Noam Postavsky
2017-03-18 14:05 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2017-03-18 16:32 ` Stefan Monnier
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