From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Janitorial issues: Man-getpage-in-background Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2003 12:57:31 -0700 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3E67A82B.5090008@ihs.com> References: <84of4qdqxt.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1046982042 18720 80.91.224.249 (6 Mar 2003 20:20:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 20:20:42 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 06 21:20:41 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18r1r0-0004rJ-00 for ; Thu, 06 Mar 2003 21:20:34 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18r2BT-0006kJ-00 for ; Thu, 06 Mar 2003 21:41:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18r1fR-0005Vv-01 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Thu, 06 Mar 2003 15:08:37 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18r1bX-0004NY-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Mar 2003 15:04:35 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18r1bG-0004D4-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Mar 2003 15:04:19 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18r1Ub-0001Dg-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Mar 2003 14:57:26 -0500 Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18r1U4-00033r-00 for ; Thu, 06 Mar 2003 20:56:52 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Received: from news by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18r1U3-00033Z-00 for ; Thu, 06 Mar 2003 20:56:51 +0100 Original-Lines: 23 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:12131 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:12131 Kai Großjohann wrote: > 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.) Objection! (I've always wanted to say that :-) On the basis of unnecessary cons'ing. -- Kevin Rodgers