From: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 61f8c23 1/2: Minor advice.el fix
Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2016 12:20:55 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAArVCkRTqSHhK__sfs=e0hPG+snAMEsEBpZMKM33c_XZpop5Ow@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> schrieb am So., 18. Dez. 2016 um
21:15 Uhr:
> > For some of them definitely. I'd draw the line between pure functions
> like
> > car and eq, where those facilities never make sense and would be
> > ineffective anyway as the functions are compiled away or called directly,
> > and impure functions like call-process, where fset is necessary for
> > mocking. As a rule of thumb, I'd suggest to ban fset on all symbols that
> > have a byte-code equivalent, and on constant symbols.
>
> I still very doubt that the potential benefit is worth the added cost
> (more specifically, as a maintainer I would strongly oppose such
> measure).
Why is then the potential benefit for the value cells worth the added cost,
i.e. why not also allow (set t 5)?
> Are you also going to try and prevent the user from using all
> the other ways he can shoot himself in the foot?
>
>
To the extent that it's feasible, yes. Emacs Lisp isn't C. If the user
wants to shoot themselves in the foot, they can write a C module.
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2016-12-13 13:40 ` [Emacs-diffs] master 61f8c23 1/2: Minor advice.el fix Stefan Monnier
2016-12-14 16:49 ` Glenn Morris
2016-12-14 18:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-12-17 21:11 ` Philipp Stephani
2016-12-17 22:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-12-18 19:43 ` Philipp Stephani
2016-12-18 20:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-12-23 12:20 ` Philipp Stephani [this message]
2016-12-24 1:21 ` Stefan Monnier
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