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From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: Daniel Brockman <daniel@brockman.se>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: constant `e'
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 10:42:40 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <85y7n5kp2n.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y7n5d9hh.fsf@wigwam.brockman.se> (Daniel Brockman's message of "Sat\, 10 Feb 2007 21\:48\:58 +0100")

Daniel Brockman <daniel@brockman.se> writes:

> Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>
>>> Incidentally, I also think `(not (null n))' looks better than `n'
>>
>> Please, it's not the same thing: (not (null 2)) != 2
>
> But this is exactly why `(not (null n))' is clearer:
> It makes it immediately clear that the value of `n' is
> not used for anything (other than testing for nil).

Instead of wasting everybody's time on this list for minor cosmetics,
how about exerting your energy for language aesthetics on the
lexical-bind branch?  That is actually something which _does_ affect
code cleanliness.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-02-11  9:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 67+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-09  7:37 constant `e' Drew Adams
2007-02-09  9:32 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-02-09 11:24   ` Kim F. Storm
2007-02-09 15:08   ` Stefan Monnier
2007-02-09 15:19     ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-02-09 15:34       ` Stefan Monnier
2007-02-10 17:40       ` Richard Stallman
2007-02-09 18:33     ` Jay Belanger
2007-02-09 18:51       ` Stefan Monnier
2007-02-09 14:23 ` Richard Stallman
2007-02-09 14:32   ` Leo
2007-02-09 23:11     ` Kim F. Storm
2007-02-10  0:16       ` Drew Adams
2007-02-12 18:11         ` Stuart D. Herring
2007-02-10 17:39     ` Richard Stallman
2007-02-09 14:37   ` David Kastrup
2007-02-10 17:39     ` Richard Stallman
2007-02-09 15:33   ` Drew Adams
2007-02-09 16:30     ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-02-09 16:50       ` Drew Adams
2007-02-10  9:49         ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-02-09 23:07   ` Dieter Wilhelm
2007-02-10 17:39     ` Richard Stallman
2007-02-10 18:41     ` Slawomir Nowaczyk
2007-02-10 21:12       ` Dieter Wilhelm
2007-02-10  9:29   ` Kevin Rodgers
2007-02-10 19:13     ` Stefan Monnier
2007-02-10 19:22       ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-02-10 19:38         ` Stefan Monnier
2007-02-10 20:32           ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-02-12  5:04             ` Kevin Rodgers
2007-02-12 16:06               ` Drew Adams
2007-02-10  6:27 ` Daniel Brockman
2007-02-10  8:59   ` David Kastrup
2007-02-10 11:35     ` Daniel Brockman
2007-02-10 12:01       ` David Kastrup
2007-02-10 12:42         ` Daniel Brockman
2007-02-10 12:43       ` Alan Mackenzie
2007-02-10 14:33         ` Daniel Brockman
2007-02-10 18:05           ` Alan Mackenzie
2007-02-10 18:29             ` Daniel Brockman
2007-02-12 19:03           ` Stuart D. Herring
2007-02-12 19:57             ` Daniel Brockman
2007-02-10 17:38         ` David Kastrup
2007-02-10 18:15           ` Daniel Brockman
2007-02-12 18:51           ` Stuart D. Herring
2007-02-10 19:05       ` Stefan Monnier
2007-02-10 20:48         ` Daniel Brockman
2007-02-10 21:06           ` Stefan Monnier
2007-02-11  9:42           ` David Kastrup [this message]
2007-02-11 17:53             ` Daniel Brockman
2007-02-10 21:34       ` Edward O'Connor
2007-02-12 19:17       ` Stuart D. Herring
2007-02-12 20:37         ` Daniel Brockman
2007-02-12 20:40           ` David Kastrup
2007-02-10 17:41   ` Richard Stallman
2007-02-10  9:02 ` Alan Mackenzie
2007-02-10  9:51   ` Jason Rumney
2007-02-12 18:16     ` Stuart D. Herring
2007-02-10 15:13   ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-02-10 19:12   ` Stefan Monnier
2007-02-11  0:43   ` David Hansen
2007-02-11  1:13     ` Jay Belanger
2007-02-11  1:24   ` Drew Adams
2007-02-10 18:53 ` Chong Yidong
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-02-13  2:34 djh
2007-02-13  8:23 ` Werner LEMBERG

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