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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.

  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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