From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Should `cancel-timer' use `delete' instead of `delq'? Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2006 09:29:32 +0200 Message-ID: <85lkoxh2qr.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1157527866 26108 80.91.229.2 (6 Sep 2006 07:31:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2006 07:31:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 06 09:31:03 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GKrsE-0001Jj-BT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Sep 2006 09:31:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GKrsD-0005Nb-Ri for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Sep 2006 03:31:01 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GKrrt-0005GT-SV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Sep 2006 03:30:42 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GKrrt-0005F1-0A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Sep 2006 03:30:41 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GKrrs-0005Ea-Gj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Sep 2006 03:30:40 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GKrry-0003y7-Hf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Sep 2006 03:30:46 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1GKrrr-0002N6-CN; Wed, 06 Sep 2006 03:30:39 -0400 Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 0BDCB1C4D3A4; Wed, 6 Sep 2006 09:29:33 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: "Drew Adams" In-Reply-To: (Drew Adams's message of "Tue, 5 Sep 2006 23:31:10 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:59414 Archived-At: "Drew Adams" writes: > > I was able to be bitten by it, using C-M-x on the defvar. > > That's a good point, but it's also a very special case -- if you're > using a debugging command to _force_ a construct to act in an abnormal > manner, you presumably know what your doing. > > Knowing what you're doing, when you think about it, does not always > imply thinking about what you're doing, when you do it. When in doubt, Emacs should bite rather the people who don't know what they are doing than those who do. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum