Re: defconst in life.el

[Luc Teirlinck <teirllm@dms.auburn.edu>]

Thien-Thi Nguyen wrote:

   the docstring gives a hint: "some".  this var is meant to be used
   experimentally (value modified, augmented, etc), so defvar is more
   suitable than defconst.

   e.g.:

Thanks.  I will stick with my original patch and convert the defconst
for `life-patterns' into a defvar, unless there are other objections.

On the other hand, I still plan to keep the defconst for `lao-key-alist'.
I still have the impression that this one should be a defvar too, but
unless a user of lao.el, or somebody familiar with it, confirms this,
I will err on the side of making too few rather than too many changes.

Sincerely,

Luc.