From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Stefan Monnier'" <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: RE: Odd unused yank-handler arguments
Date: Sun, 2 May 2010 12:55:09 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <06BDA53459974622BCAA64077376BFD8@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvd3xet7a9.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
> > 2. However, why not give the reason for the change?
> > Perhaps the reason is that those functions should never
> > have had such an arg. Or perhaps it is that they no longer
> > need it. Or that no existing code using them uses the arg.
> > Or...
>
> IIUC the yank-handler code evolved a bit before finding its
> meaning, and those args are left overs from this process: they
> seemed like a good idea at the time, but in the end all we
> really care about and need is the `yank-handler' property.
See? That wasn't so hard to explain.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-02 19:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-02 6:15 Odd unused yank-handler arguments Stefan Monnier
2010-05-02 13:54 ` Drew Adams
2010-05-02 19:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-05-02 19:55 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2010-05-02 19:48 ` Kim F. Storm
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