From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kenichi Handa Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: defconst in life.el Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 10:48:09 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <200411170148.KAA24839@etlken.m17n.org> References: <200411141840.iAEIeXG24252@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <87k6so2ljb.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> <200411142139.iAELd9q27391@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <200411142251.iAEMpfG27635@raven.dms.auburn.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.3 - "Ushinoya") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1100656161 22972 80.91.229.6 (17 Nov 2004 01:49:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 01:49:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ttn@glug.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 17 02:49:14 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CUEwc-00012Z-00 for ; Wed, 17 Nov 2004 02:49:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CUF5N-0007O3-Fl for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Nov 2004 20:58:17 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CUF5F-0007Nq-JI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Nov 2004 20:58:09 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CUF5F-0007NQ-01 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Nov 2004 20:58:09 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CUF5E-0007NB-O0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Nov 2004 20:58:08 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.47.44.130] (helo=tsukuba.m17n.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.34) id 1CUEvm-0006JD-Sj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Nov 2004 20:48:23 -0500 Original-Received: from fs.m17n.org (fs.m17n.org [192.47.44.2]) by tsukuba.m17n.org (8.12.3/8.12.3/Debian-7.1) with ESMTP id iAH1mATH009574; Wed, 17 Nov 2004 10:48:10 +0900 Original-Received: from etlken.m17n.org (etlken.m17n.org [192.47.44.125]) by fs.m17n.org (8.11.6p2/8.11.6) with ESMTP id iAH1m9A13979; Wed, 17 Nov 2004 10:48:10 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: (from handa@localhost) by etlken.m17n.org (8.8.8+Sun/3.7W-2001040620) id KAA24839; Wed, 17 Nov 2004 10:48:09 +0900 (JST) Original-To: teirllm@dms.auburn.edu In-reply-to: <200411142251.iAEMpfG27635@raven.dms.auburn.edu> (message from Luc Teirlinck on Sun, 14 Nov 2004 16:51:41 -0600 (CST)) User-Agent: SEMI/1.14.3 (Ushinoya) FLIM/1.14.2 (Yagi-Nishiguchi) APEL/10.2 Emacs/21.3 (sparc-sun-solaris2.6) MULE/5.0 (SAKAKI) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:29950 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:29950 In article <200411142251.iAEMpfG27635@raven.dms.auburn.edu>, Luc Teirlinck writes: > 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, It's possible that a user provide different initial value for this variable in his .emacs. In that sense, defvar may be better. On the other hand, modifying this value after lao.el is loaded doesn't work. In that sense, it seems that defconst is better. --- Ken'ichi HANDA handa@m17n.org