From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs 21 and w3 on Debian Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2005 11:55:46 -0400 Organization: Bell Sympatico Message-ID: <87wtpe2htn.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org> References: <87sm0fbjx4.fsf@tiger.rapttech.com.au> <874qcvqar0.fsf@spamfoil.invalid> <87oeb2c2x5.fsf@tiger.rapttech.com.au> <87fywebcp7.fsf@tiger.rapttech.com.au> <87ll66pavk.fsf@spamfoil.invalid> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1117642402 11116 80.91.229.2 (1 Jun 2005 16:13:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2005 16:13:22 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 01 18:13:21 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DdVnk-0001iD-OE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 01 Jun 2005 18:10:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DdVt3-0000Zs-Oj for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 01 Jun 2005 12:16:09 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!msrtrans!News.Dal.Ca!ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca!nf3.bellglobal.com!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ks9JyDuRZa1w/izMISvR68dWkNU= Original-Lines: 25 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 67.71.32.43 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca Original-X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1117641346 67.71.32.43 (Wed, 01 Jun 2005 11:55:46 EDT) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2005 11:55:46 EDT Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:131677 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:27137 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:27137 >> By the way: The code uses >> "(declare (special ...))" to mark these cases and to pacify the >> byte-compiler. Someone with CVS write access could replace these with an >> equivalent non-CL statement, i.e., append the named variables to >> "byte-compile-bound-variables". > No, those declarations are there to pacify the Common Lisp cravings of > the author. The right thing to do is to defvar the global variables at > the top level (either in url-http.el itself or in one of the libraries > it requires). There's nothing wrong with (declare (special ...) ...). >>> But (append (list x) ...) is better expressed as (cons x ...): >>> >>> (cons redirect-uri (cdr url-callback-arguments)) >> >> Isn't that a matter of taste? I find it more intuitive to use "append" >> and "list" for list operations and "cons" for simple cells. But I am no >> lisp expert. It's just a lot less efficient. Stefan