From: Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>
To: Dmitry Antipov <dmantipov@yandex.ru>
Cc: Emacs development discussions <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] refactoring DEFUN
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 06:18:38 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51504EAE.9080402@dancol.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51503B6D.1060203@yandex.ru>
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On 3/25/2013 4:56 AM, Dmitry Antipov wrote:
> Although C preprocessor can't transform the text too much, it's
> still possible to use concatenation to avoid silly typing like:
>
> DEFUN ("foo", Ffoo, Sfoo, ...)
>
I really don't mind the way it is now. Adding a subr isn't a particularly common
endeavor.
> and use:
>
> DEFUN ("foo", foo, ...)
>
> instead. The core change is simple, but the obvious rest is ~450K
> uncompressed (99.9% was generated by elisp program, BTW).
I'd prefer to keep it the old way --- it preserves greppability. The new way
involves a lot more magic, and I don't think it buys us much maintainability
because changing buildin function names is rare.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-03-25 13:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-03-25 11:56 [RFC] refactoring DEFUN Dmitry Antipov
2013-03-25 12:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-03-25 12:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-03-25 12:56 ` Andy Moreton
2013-03-25 12:55 ` Andy Moreton
2013-03-25 13:48 ` Dmitry Antipov
2013-03-25 13:18 ` Daniel Colascione [this message]
2013-03-25 14:02 ` [RFC] " Dmitry Antipov
2013-03-25 13:54 ` Alan Mackenzie
2013-03-25 14:34 ` Stefan Monnier
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