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From: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 12406@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#12406: 24.2.50; frame parameter `menu-bar-lines' and `menu-bar-mode'
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 18:48:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5050BCC2.7040704@gmx.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2642D1C71B064D30A09DABF179962841@us.oracle.com>

 >> Because this way we'd have a consistent interface: The presence of a
 >> frame parameter would signal "leave this frame alone".
 >
 > That's inconsistent with the convention that absence of a frame parameter is
 > equivalent to its presence with a nil value.  It is similar to proposing that we
 > give some  special signification to the absense of a key in an alist, as opposed
 > to a key with value nil.

You're probably right.

 > You are unnecessarily coupling things that do not belong together.  That's a bad
 > idea.  Whether a given parameter should be affected  by a given function is
 > logically unrelated to whether the parameter is currently present for a given
 > frame, and is logically unrelated to the parameter's current value for a given
 > frame.

Maybe.  I never understood things like `tool-bar-lines-needed'.

martin





  reply	other threads:[~2012-09-12 16:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-10 17:59 bug#12406: 24.2.50; frame parameter `menu-bar-lines' and `menu-bar-mode' Drew Adams
2012-09-10 20:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-09-10 21:41   ` Drew Adams
2012-09-12  8:09     ` martin rudalics
2012-09-12 14:13       ` Drew Adams
2012-09-12 15:08         ` martin rudalics
2012-09-12 15:33           ` Drew Adams
2012-09-12 16:48             ` martin rudalics [this message]
2012-09-12 17:42               ` Drew Adams
2012-09-12 17:53                 ` martin rudalics
2012-09-12 18:02                   ` Drew Adams
2012-09-13  3:17             ` Stefan Monnier
2012-09-13  4:05               ` Drew Adams

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