From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: MON KEY Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: e and pi Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2010 22:03:51 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1284861847 21261 80.91.229.12 (19 Sep 2010 02:04:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 02:04:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: david@harpegolden.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 19 04:04:05 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ox9G4-00027z-Jx for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Sep 2010 04:04:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35138 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ox9G3-0004OC-UW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 22:04:00 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=57595 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ox9Fy-0004O7-DN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 22:03:55 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ox9Fx-0002YP-8j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 22:03:54 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-ww0-f49.google.com ([74.125.82.49]:39157) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ox9Fx-0002YH-2o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 22:03:53 -0400 Original-Received: by wwb24 with SMTP id 24so4088078wwb.30 for ; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 19:03:51 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.216.175.83 with SMTP id y61mr6392501wel.30.1284861831556; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 19:03:51 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.216.65.140 with HTTP; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 19:03:51 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: X-Google-Sender-Auth: 0zmo-WBCY6r6SGUid8BpKUStzW4 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:130467 Archived-At: On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 10:50 AM, Stefan Monnier wrote: > =C2=A0* is already accepted as a char that > marks the variable as "OK to use with defvar". Yes, I saw. Thanks for that! > As for +, I've never seen Elisp code use it, so I don't see a need for it= . > It is a fine convention though. No doubt one like it will probably spring up in the absence of an informal hint from the devels... And, with lexbind integration maybe more Common Lisp code should be able run with only minor modification esp. the older pre-CLOS stuff. Maybe I'm dreaming... > Note also that Using *...* for dynamic vars doesn't save the author from > using a prefix, since that is needed for modularity reasons. Yes, of course. Though, as mentioned in a recent bug report these types of vars don't/won't get font-locked in "*Help*". bug#6601: help-make-xref doesn't buttonize `help-variable-def' as per `help-xref-symbol-regexp http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2010-07/msg00309.html > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0Stefan > -- /s_P\