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
next prev parent 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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