Re: Let-binding text-quoting-style vs (message "%s" ...) (WAS: Emacs 26.1 release branch created)

Re: Let-binding text-quoting-style vs (message "%s" ...) (WAS: Emacs 26.1 release branch created)

[Noam Postavsky]

On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 2:43 PM, Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> wrote:
>> I think this is the wrong way to approach this. What counts here are the
>> benefits: by avoiding global mutable state we make code that is easier to
>> reason about, easier to test, etc.
>
> What about the costs?  Emacs has a large state, including variable
> numbers of buffers, variable variables (libraries can be loaded at any
> time), variable properties and text properties, ....
>
> What you're asserting, I think, is that there is a better way to house
> this state rather than "globally".  No details of this other way have
> been forthcoming.

Can we bring this back to the topic at hand before we end up rehashing
dynamic vs static typing, functional vs object oriented etc, etc,
please?

Re: Let-binding text-quoting-style vs (message "%s" ...)

[John Wiegley]

>>>>> "NP" == Noam Postavsky <npostavs@users.sourceforge.net> writes:

NP> Can we bring this back to the topic at hand before we end up rehashing
NP> dynamic vs static typing, functional vs object oriented etc, etc, please?

Thank you, the wilds of mutable vs. immutable are populated by enough lions,
tigers and bears that few of us would survive a proper sojourn there.

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