From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dmitry Gutov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: cl-defgeneric vs random funcall in project.el Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2015 04:09:30 +0300 Message-ID: <55C7F9CA.5010102@yandex.ru> References: <86oaiwa57v.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <55B79B3F.1060200@yandex.ru> <86wpxj93r2.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <55B82A0C.5040709@yandex.ru> <86fv4782k2.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <55B92F76.7060104@yandex.ru> <86380686sm.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <55BA0AC4.7060906@yandex.ru> <86mvyd7jf0.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <55BA5BDD.1080009@yandex.ru> <86k2thz0dw.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <55BAC366.1010803@yandex.ru> <86fv44z94l.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <55BBFC3E.2010405@yandex.ru> <86h9ojjoll.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <55BCB6E5.2040804@yandex.ru> <86wpxfhyzm.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <55BCF888.4020907@yandex.ru> <55C1271A.2090202@yandex.ru> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1439168994 20309 80.91.229.3 (10 Aug 2015 01:09:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2015 01:09:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Stephen Leake , emacs-devel To: =?UTF-8?B?Sm/Do28gVMOhdm9yYQ==?= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 10 03:09:42 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZObav-0002ZC-LF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Aug 2015 03:09:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56626 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZObau-0004jk-LS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 09 Aug 2015 21:09:40 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35710) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZObar-0004jP-Nv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Aug 2015 21:09:38 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZObao-0001mp-Io for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Aug 2015 21:09:37 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-lb0-x233.google.com ([2a00:1450:4010:c04::233]:36073) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZObao-0001mP-A2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Aug 2015 21:09:34 -0400 Original-Received: by lbbpu9 with SMTP id pu9so59355304lbb.3 for ; Sun, 09 Aug 2015 18:09:33 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=sender:subject:to:references:cc:from:message-id:date:user-agent :mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=/tCJQcD1vpVF/OPUdq/xhra9iLNFZUjgb4OYkedWGuM=; b=HnTJDeM4OZd7dab/Fh2JmuT6d72SMYJYLqUj0MvuwQ2XjNZ/xndeTToTI65mIaNfHl m8WkB3pMwXDNbumyYMGQzENgkOzawdTKKwA59OW3DL3I8CWRgR3WAgv3jsT/fhvgM8jS 4Bi3heIWGpeHW8M+OVKswUOGnBfkooi1cXe0q3TYu/fHGA1eBS05YN52AdvTJyve3OM2 m880UqFFnXEKTFH9z2XxKcmg+HHbZYqjkbQzsrtR0zLzbpsD2Qbxu0ym37D5hA5wLQpo 8hSvLWAW/VDSDTbn1iwHawFxQUEaG37zC8JQYCt9cPjkt4oFCjSPVvk7xOBs6GePNZ8p BQdg== X-Received: by 10.152.87.52 with SMTP id u20mr17933327laz.48.1439168972999; Sun, 09 Aug 2015 18:09:32 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.190] ([178.252.127.222]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id pw1sm3881103lac.17.2015.08.09.18.09.31 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Sun, 09 Aug 2015 18:09:32 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:40.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/40.0 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2a00:1450:4010:c04::233 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:188658 Archived-At: On 08/05/2015 01:43 AM, João Távora wrote: >> To continue this line of thought, would you say the variables should have >> global meaning (meaning all project backends should honor them), or should >> they be only used in the VC project backend? They're local to the VC project backend now. To make them kinda-global, I haven't found good enough names, and the docstrings were going to have too many caveats (like how different implementations can, but don't have to, use them).