From: "Stefan Monnier" <monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Janitorial issues: Man-getpage-in-background
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 12:40:36 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200303101740.h2AHeavF027280@rum.cs.yale.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 84of4qdqxt.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de
> The function Man-getpage-in-background uses two different ways to set
> environment variables:
>
> (a) (let ((process-environment (copy-sequence process-environment)))
> (setenv "FOO" "bar")
> ...)
>
> (b) (let ((process-environment (cons "FOO=bar" process-environment)))
> ...)
>
> It looks really strange to see them both in the same function...
>
> Okay to unify? (I'd choose (a) unless there are objections.)
I'd choose (b) to avoid unnecessary consing (via copying).
Stefan
prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-03-10 17:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-05 10:54 Janitorial issues: Man-getpage-in-background Kai Großjohann
2003-03-06 19:29 ` Richard Stallman
2003-03-06 19:57 ` Kevin Rodgers
2003-03-07 17:53 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-03-08 23:03 ` Richard Stallman
2003-03-09 13:46 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-03-11 18:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-03-12 11:57 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-03-10 17:40 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
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