From: Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>
To: "João Távora" <joaotavora@gmail.com>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Fwd: Flymake and the 'face' property
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2019 10:53:58 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9475f971-0d8a-7b75-b46f-73f36547b67a@dancol.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALDnm528Sc1pNGzbRJVdiR_Jhne-WTZEXNbQhm0A+szx60udug@mail.gmail.com>
On 1/29/19 10:47 AM, João Távora wrote:
> Hello Eli and Daniel,
>
> On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 5:54 PM Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org> wrote:
>> Making this 'face property on random symbols special is bad design. It
>> affects only flymake *as far we know*, but that could be ignorance or
>> blind luck. Emacs shouldn't be using high-collision-probability names on
>> arbitrary symbols for internal purposes when other options are available.
>
> Are you saying that no facilities in Emacs should reserve global
> symbols for their own implementation details? If so I agree, it is bad
> design.
Yeah. With respect to plists, it's okay to attach public symbols to
private plists, and it's okay to put private symbols on public plists,
but putting public symbols on public plists is creating a bug machine.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-01-29 18:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20190128152540.6870.46132@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org>
[not found] ` <20190128152541.12A4D20B50@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org>
2019-01-28 16:05 ` [Emacs-diffs] master cd06d17: Fix bug with face-id after restoring from pdump Daniel Colascione
2019-01-28 18:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-01-28 19:37 ` Daniel Colascione
2019-01-28 20:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-01-28 17:58 ` Glenn Morris
2019-01-28 20:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-01-28 20:12 ` Flymake and the 'face' property (was: master cd06d17: Fix bug with face-id after restoring from pdump) Eli Zaretskii
2019-01-28 20:39 ` João Távora
2019-01-28 20:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-01-28 21:38 ` João Távora
2019-01-29 16:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <CALDnm53FnkT+fjneg3uLNMsCu1MxJK1aKWQyvz85EjVdOyr4bg@mail.gmail.com>
2019-01-29 17:26 ` Fwd: " João Távora
2019-01-29 17:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-01-29 17:54 ` Daniel Colascione
2019-01-29 18:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-01-29 18:43 ` Fwd: Flymake and the 'face' property Daniel Colascione
2019-01-29 19:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-01-29 18:47 ` Fwd: Flymake and the 'face' property (was: master cd06d17: Fix bug with face-id after restoring from pdump) João Távora
2019-01-29 18:53 ` Daniel Colascione [this message]
2019-01-29 19:00 ` Fwd: Flymake and the 'face' property João Távora
2019-01-29 19:21 ` Fwd: Flymake and the 'face' property (was: master cd06d17: Fix bug with face-id after restoring from pdump) Eli Zaretskii
2019-01-29 19:28 ` João Távora
2019-01-29 18:28 ` João Távora
2019-01-29 18:34 ` Fwd: Flymake and the 'face' property Johan Bockgård
2019-01-29 18:49 ` João Távora
2019-01-29 19:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-01-29 19:33 ` João Távora
2019-01-29 19:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-01-29 19:58 ` João Távora
2019-01-30 9:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-01-30 15:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-01-30 17:05 ` João Távora
2019-01-30 18:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-01-30 20:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-01-31 3:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-02-02 8:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-02-02 10:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-02-02 22:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-02-03 3:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-02-03 12:35 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-01-29 17:52 ` Fwd: Flymake and the 'face' property (was: master cd06d17: Fix bug with face-id after restoring from pdump) Daniel Colascione
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