From: "Richard M. Stallman" <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Real constants
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 23:14:06 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1DsuAo-0002QF-Rm@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f7ccd24b050713112951159a79@mail.gmail.com> (message from Juanma Barranquero on Wed, 13 Jul 2005 20:29:52 +0200)
I don't want to introduce defining of "real constants" in Emacs.
It would be added complexity that we don't need, and that
as far as I can see does not serve a purpose.
The motivation for the suggestion appears to be an idea of
completeness. Emacs has a bit that makes a symbol constant, so why
not add a construct to set that bit. But adding features for mere
completeness would mean doing a lot of extra work for little or no
benefit.
Please don't propose new Emacs features for mere completeness' sake.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-07-14 3:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-07-13 13:59 Real constants Juanma Barranquero
2005-07-13 18:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-07-13 18:29 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-07-14 2:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-07-14 8:05 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-07-14 3:14 ` Richard M. Stallman [this message]
2005-07-14 8:16 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-07-15 0:12 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-07-15 0:53 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-07-15 9:47 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2005-07-15 22:03 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-07-16 10:10 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-07-15 18:10 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-07-15 4:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-07-18 6:05 ` Juanma Barranquero
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