From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: mattias.engdegard@gmail.com, 61730@debbugs.gnu.org,
monnier@iro.umontreal.ca
Subject: bug#61730: 30.0.50; Compiler warnings for delq and delete
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2023 17:45:30 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87v8jrdnbp.fsf@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877cw7f37n.fsf@web.de> (Michael Heerdegen's message of "Fri, 24 Feb 2023 17:17:00 +0100")
Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> writes:
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > Even though my-list is never used again in the program? How is this
> > better than "(setq _ ..."?
>
> This case is indeed a matter of personal style.
>
> If you modify some list and throw away the return value, the program is
> likely to refer to the place again, though, not necessarily in the same
> function.
Instead of "(setq _ ..." you could better use "(ignore ..." which would
also serve as a hint to the reader: "the return value is ignored
intentionally, this destructive operation is intended like it is in this
case". That would not be bad style IMO.
Michael.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-02-24 16:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-02-23 10:29 bug#61730: 30.0.50; Compiler warnings for delq and delete Michael Heerdegen
2023-02-24 3:59 ` Richard Stallman
2023-02-24 13:43 ` Mattias Engdegård
2023-02-24 13:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-02-24 15:11 ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-02-24 15:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-02-24 15:45 ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-02-24 15:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-02-24 16:17 ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-02-24 16:45 ` Michael Heerdegen [this message]
2023-02-24 19:33 ` Mattias Engdegård
2023-02-24 20:20 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-02-25 9:40 ` Mattias Engdegård
2023-02-25 4:15 ` Richard Stallman
2023-02-25 8:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-02-25 12:34 ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-02-25 13:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-02-25 15:09 ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-02-25 15:29 ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-02-25 15:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-02-27 3:22 ` Richard Stallman
2023-02-27 10:37 ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-02-27 11:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-02-27 3:24 ` Richard Stallman
2023-02-27 11:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-02-24 15:52 ` Mattias Engdegård
2023-02-24 16:37 ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-04-09 16:41 ` Mattias Engdegård
2023-05-01 16:06 ` Mattias Engdegård
2023-05-20 1:57 ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-05-20 9:14 ` Mattias Engdegård
2023-05-21 0:56 ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-05-21 3:01 ` Ruijie Yu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-05-21 3:57 ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-05-21 5:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-21 8:42 ` Mattias Engdegård
2023-05-31 14:38 ` Mattias Engdegård
2023-06-01 0:48 ` Michael Heerdegen
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