From: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm)
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: safe-get
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 10:09:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3k6mwsg8s.fsf@kfs-l.imdomain.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1DOMxc-0004fa-I7@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Wed, 20 Apr 2005 17:42:16 -0400")
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> Is there a reason not to make ordinary `get' safe?
Not really, except
a) it will not catch errors in the symbol plist.
b) it is slightly slower
> That would be
> simpler for Lisp programmers than introducing safe-get.
> The code would be simpler, the manual would be simpler, even
> etc/NEWS would be simpler.
I will revert my changes, and just make get safe...
But then, why don't we make plist-get safe
and get rid of safe-plist-get, too ?
IIRC, safe-plist-get is new in 22.1, so I don't see any big
problems doing that...
--
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk> http://www.cua.dk
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-21 8:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-04-20 21:42 safe-get Richard Stallman
2005-04-20 23:52 ` safe-get Stefan Monnier
2005-04-21 19:56 ` safe-get Richard Stallman
2005-04-21 8:09 ` Kim F. Storm [this message]
2005-04-21 19:56 ` safe-get Richard Stallman
2005-04-21 23:47 ` safe-get Kim F. Storm
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