From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Using "Emacs Configure" **and** modifying .emacs Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2017 09:43:23 +0200 Message-ID: <86bmnlqlic.fsf@zoho.com> References: <1502373086.1171866.1069247696.71F9FED4@webmail.messagingengine.com> <8660dvuzsr.fsf@zoho.com> <1502436066.2568371.1070085968.1D25E0E7@webmail.messagingengine.com> <87tw1ekxgo.fsf@127.0.0.1> <867ey9sva2.fsf@zoho.com> <86378xskth.fsf@zoho.com> <20170812073057.GB20873@tuxteam.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1502523871 29771 195.159.176.226 (12 Aug 2017 07:44:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2017 07:44:31 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 12 09:44:25 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dgR5m-00073E-5C for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Aug 2017 09:44:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34232 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dgR5s-0003yN-JV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Aug 2017 03:44:24 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38097) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dgR5J-0003wd-V1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Aug 2017 03:43:51 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dgR5H-0005MH-EP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Aug 2017 03:43:50 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=48405 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dgR5H-0005LB-3z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Aug 2017 03:43:47 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dgR52-0004j1-TJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Aug 2017 09:43:32 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:fSnww6qyE0AP8aAQ2BjEjDzjbLI= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:114001 Archived-At: tomas wrote: > Some dont want a validation to explode deep > whithin the guts of some module loaded by > another module, where the user has no clue > about what the heck is going on, but next to > the place where a variable is being set to > a value it's not supposed to have. > > Sometimes I can sympathize with that :-) One could also put validation at the beginning of the functions that use the value, where it (the function) checks its own parameters rather than some global loose-cannon variable! Which is also a much better design this specific issue aside... -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573