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From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: Dmitry Antipov <dmantipov@yandex.ru>,
	Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>,
	emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r109327: Generalize INTERNAL_FIELD between buffers, keyboards and frames.
Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2012 05:29:19 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ehnl3www.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <501E9000.10301@cs.ucla.edu> (Paul Eggert's message of "Sun, 05 Aug 2012 07:23:44 -0800")

Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> writes:
> The main issue is readability.  I find it more
> readable when the notation "f (x)" in ordinary C code
> means that F is a function, instead of some other
> construct that cannot possibly be a function.

The convention that an UPPERCASE name means "macro with possibly
non-function-like semantics" is a very well established idiom in C
tho...

-miles

-- 
Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as
they ought to be. Hence the custom among the Scythians of plucking out a
cynic's eyes to improve his vision.



  reply	other threads:[~2012-08-05 20:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <E1SwCK8-0001PC-3m@vcs.savannah.gnu.org>
2012-08-01 10:33 ` [Emacs-diffs] /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r109327: Generalize INTERNAL_FIELD between buffers, keyboards and frames Stefan Monnier
2012-08-01 12:04   ` Dmitry Antipov
2012-08-01 14:58     ` Paul Eggert
2012-08-01 16:52       ` Dmitry Antipov
2012-08-01 17:38       ` Tom Tromey
2012-08-01 21:04         ` Paul Eggert
2012-08-02  5:28         ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-08-01 15:01     ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-08-01 18:02       ` Dmitry Antipov
2012-08-02 15:28         ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-08-01 23:52     ` Stefan Monnier
2012-08-02  4:12       ` Dmitry Antipov
2012-08-02  5:56         ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-08-02  7:47           ` Dmitry Antipov
2012-08-02  9:30             ` Juanma Barranquero
2012-08-02 16:07             ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-08-02 15:45           ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-08-02 21:28             ` Paul Eggert
2012-08-03  6:27               ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-08-03  6:52                 ` Paul Eggert
2012-08-02 23:38           ` Richard Stallman
2012-08-02 15:34         ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-08-03  7:42         ` Stefan Monnier
2012-08-03  8:31           ` Dmitry Antipov
2012-08-03 18:58             ` Paul Eggert
2012-08-03 22:52               ` Stefan Monnier
2012-08-04 16:31                 ` Paul Eggert
2012-08-05 15:03                   ` Dmitry Antipov
2012-08-06 10:54                     ` Stefan Monnier
2012-08-06 11:44                       ` Dmitry Antipov
2012-08-06 16:31                         ` Stefan Monnier
2012-08-06 17:43                           ` Stefan Monnier
2012-08-08  7:22                         ` Chong Yidong
2012-08-05 14:59               ` Dmitry Antipov
2012-08-05 15:23                 ` Paul Eggert
2012-08-05 20:29                   ` Miles Bader [this message]
2012-08-03 22:50             ` Stefan Monnier
2012-08-03 23:11               ` Wojciech Meyer
2012-08-08  3:39           ` Chong Yidong
2012-08-08  7:14             ` Dmitry Antipov
2012-08-08  7:46               ` Chong Yidong
2012-08-08 10:18                 ` Dmitry Antipov
2012-08-08 12:41             ` Stefan Monnier

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