From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hrvoje Niksic Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: locate-file in Emacs Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 18:29:29 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200204170928.g3H9SVb27019@rum.cs.yale.edu> <200204171001.g3HA1hh27230@rum.cs.yale.edu> <200204181408.g3IE83b02114@rum.cs.yale.edu> <87k7r558h1.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1019147419 8505 127.0.0.1 (18 Apr 2002 16:30:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 16:30:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Stefan Monnier" , emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16yEnb-0002D4-00 for ; Thu, 18 Apr 2002 18:30:19 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16yF6q-0005Qm-00 for ; Thu, 18 Apr 2002 18:50:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16yEnb-0004vZ-00; Thu, 18 Apr 2002 12:30:19 -0400 Original-Received: from dragon.arsdigita.de ([212.84.246.66] helo=florida.arsdigita.de) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16yEmn-0004oN-00; Thu, 18 Apr 2002 12:29:30 -0400 Original-Received: from hniksic by florida.arsdigita.de with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 16yEmn-000728-00; Thu, 18 Apr 2002 18:29:29 +0200 Original-To: Miles Bader X-Attribution: Hrvoje X-Face: &{dT~)Pu6V<0y?>3p$;@vh\`C7xB~A0T-J%Og)J,@-1%q6Q+, gs<-9M#&`I8cJp2b1{vPE|~+JE+gx;a7%BG{}nY^ehK1"q#rG O,Rn1A_Cy%t]V=Brv7h (Miles Bader's message of "19 Apr 2002 00:31:38 +0900") Original-Lines: 17 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) XEmacs/21.4 (Common Lisp, i686-pc-linux) Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:2739 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:2739 Miles Bader writes: > I think that probably the best thing to do is to simply deprecate > the MODE interface You find it best, but I don't agree. I think MODE is nice for the added efficiency (which my implementation doesn't use). I've never needed a generic PREDICATE argument, but I did use MODE. Another thing I don't like about that change is that it mixes the namespaces -- PREDICATE would silently misbehave work if your function happens to be named `executable' or `readable'. It may not be a problem in practice, but I'd prefer to keep the namespaces separate. > * Using a predicate is more elegant, and more `lispy'. Maybe we should revert to using OR-ed numbers. :-)