From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#9653: 24.0.50; `ucs-names' - Why all of the ("" . XXX) entries? Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2011 21:20:21 +0800 Message-ID: <87sjna1aay.fsf@gnu.org> References: <74B14D2A03144E798C9415172D5FE01A@us.oracle.com> <3EB320EE64B3419489F05F06AE8B3486@us.oracle.com> <28E4630817FC4AA3AA0BF93ACEFB84DC@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1317648055 30051 80.91.229.12 (3 Oct 2011 13:20:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2011 13:20:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 'Juanma Barranquero' , 9653@debbugs.gnu.org To: "Drew Adams" Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 03 15:20:50 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RAiRt-0008HV-CG for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Oct 2011 15:20:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59765 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RAiRs-0006IL-N2 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Oct 2011 09:20:48 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:39405) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RAiRn-0006Hu-Nv for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Oct 2011 09:20:47 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RAiRk-0007MO-2P for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Oct 2011 09:20:43 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:34935) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RAiRj-0007MD-Uv for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Oct 2011 09:20:40 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RAiT4-0008AN-HB for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Oct 2011 09:22:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Jason Rumney Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2011 13:22:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 9653 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 9653-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B9653.131764812131384 (code B ref 9653); Mon, 03 Oct 2011 13:22:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 9653) by debbugs.gnu.org; 3 Oct 2011 13:22:01 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RAiT2-0008A8-5Q for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 03 Oct 2011 09:22:00 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-vx0-f172.google.com ([209.85.220.172]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RAiT0-0008A1-5L for 9653@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 03 Oct 2011 09:21:59 -0400 Original-Received: by vcbfo11 with SMTP id fo11so2776425vcb.3 for <9653@debbugs.gnu.org>; Mon, 03 Oct 2011 06:20:34 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=sender:from:to:cc:subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id :user-agent:mime-version:content-type; bh=pKWmEll7xt80c6t7Xc9nHz4p1U6pBnlIKQfhfU8OggU=; b=SkcvqpwoxYOGIK4G2p8gRvquRreunUjWDJko28Q1uunKbSzPdmnxn6OA5xEQZGw9bJ vIlX4BvNPxyZc6hEyaF3wid8qxruXCY0Llymq6Rgw7K2Fw5Guf8W6A54mfnF84MEp0xW oq8C3cSsBP7VMQQI+EMARKi5BzGRjwUaBSJKQ= Original-Received: by 10.68.6.98 with SMTP id z2mr1129719pbz.36.1317648033864; Mon, 03 Oct 2011 06:20:33 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from home.jasonrumney.net ([180.75.96.24]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id ki1sm13322318pbb.3.2011.10.03.06.20.28 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 03 Oct 2011 06:20:31 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by home.jasonrumney.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 656EB186E; Mon, 3 Oct 2011 21:20:21 +0800 (MYT) In-Reply-To: <28E4630817FC4AA3AA0BF93ACEFB84DC@us.oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Sun, 2 Oct 2011 15:51:50 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.90 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2011 09:22:02 -0400 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:52107 Archived-At: "Drew Adams" writes: > It should be obvious that a data structure such as `ucs-names' is useful even > outside of reading a character name with `read-char-by-name'. I predict that > we'll find that the former is in fact more generally useful than the > latter. It should be obvious that any variable with scant documentation that starts off "Alist of cached..." is internal to something, and probably not very useful outside of that.