From: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>
To: "Juanma Barranquero" <lekktu@gmail.com>
Cc: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>,
"T.V. Raman" <tv.raman.tv@gmail.com>,
Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org, Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>,
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: Re: files.el: Patch to make project-settings optional/customizable
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:14:29 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200811190014.mAJ0ETCA002782@mothra.ics.uci.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f7ccd24b0811181550t7f11b251qef541ffcecb0ef11@mail.gmail.com> (Juanma Barranquero's message of "Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:50:06 +0100")
"Juanma Barranquero" <lekktu@gmail.com> writes:
> On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 00:41, Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu> wrote:
>
> > What is the advantage of that?
> > If someone is so offended by the .dir-settings.el name, they can:
>
> And why are you so offended by a defvar?
Because it's not a variable, it has to be a constant. (And a string
literal as it was until a few days ago is even better.)
In a few years someone will see the defvar and will want to turn it into
a defcustom and we'll have the same discussion again.
> It doesn't even have to be
> documented, other than a docstring:
Each extra variable adds a bit of complexity, and there's no shortage
of that.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-19 0:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-13 14:29 files.el: Patch to make project-settings optional/customizable T.V. Raman
2008-11-13 15:20 ` Chong Yidong
2008-11-13 16:07 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-11-13 16:19 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-11-13 16:45 ` Tom Tromey
2008-11-13 17:14 ` Chong Yidong
2008-11-13 17:28 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-11-13 17:55 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-11-13 17:59 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-11-13 19:13 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-11-13 19:00 ` Tom Tromey
2008-11-13 19:15 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-11-13 18:26 ` Chong Yidong
2008-11-13 18:48 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-11-18 16:36 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-11-18 22:04 ` Juri Linkov
2008-11-18 22:15 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-11-18 22:42 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-11-18 23:18 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-11-18 23:41 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-11-18 22:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-11-18 23:31 ` Juri Linkov
2008-11-18 23:33 ` Chong Yidong
2008-11-18 23:41 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-11-18 23:50 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-11-19 0:14 ` Dan Nicolaescu [this message]
2008-11-19 1:48 ` Chong Yidong
2008-11-19 8:26 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-11-19 12:52 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-11-18 23:37 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-11-19 2:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-11-19 8:39 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-11-19 13:27 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-11-19 22:45 ` Juri Linkov
2008-11-19 22:58 ` Tom Tromey
2008-11-20 2:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-11-22 19:08 ` Juri Linkov
2008-11-22 19:40 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-11-22 19:51 ` Juri Linkov
2008-11-22 20:20 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-11-22 22:03 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-11-23 3:34 ` Miles Bader
2008-11-23 5:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-11-23 5:36 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-11-23 5:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-11-23 8:10 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-11-23 10:45 ` Juri Linkov
2008-11-23 12:10 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-11-23 12:41 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-11-23 17:16 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-11-23 17:45 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-11-23 21:21 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-11-24 2:14 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-11-24 3:06 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-11-24 5:35 ` Chong Yidong
2008-11-22 4:03 ` Kevin Rodgers
2008-11-19 4:07 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-11-13 19:04 ` Tom Tromey
2008-11-13 19:23 ` Tom Tromey
2008-11-13 19:55 ` Juanma Barranquero
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