Re: frame-local variables weirdness

[Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>> It also has the big limitation that all references to the value must be
>> specially written to access a specifier.
>
> Right, just like right now they're specifically written to access a variable.

Er, well, isn't the point that that code is in general written to use
variables, so that's _not_ a burden?

The nice thing about these magic variables is that you can make
something frame specific even though the designer of the code didn't
think of that (he just used an ordinary global variable).

If frame(etc)-specific values needed special syntax, either this would
cease to be possible, or else a lot of code would needed to be changed,
a lot of code authors would need to have their habits changed, and a lot
of code would be come a fair bit uglier...

-Miles

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