all messages for Emacs-related lists mirrored at yhetil.org
 help / color / mirror / code / Atom feed
From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: wohler@newt.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: defvars at compile time
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 11:32:35 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1FKHsR-0000PQ-SE@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <buoacbpiyce.fsf@dhapc248.dev.necel.com> (message from Miles Bader on Fri, 17 Mar 2006 11:44:49 +0900)

    > Funny name. Seems like value-if-bound would be more accurate.

    Yeah.  Or "bound-value".

The name was not chosen carefully because this was not intended as
an advertised facility.

If we want to make it one, I suggest the name symbol-value-safe.  Like
car-safe.

  reply	other threads:[~2006-03-17 16:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-07  0:18 New GNOME icons Bill Wohler
2006-03-10 23:15 ` Bill Wohler
2006-03-10 23:56 ` Reiner Steib
2006-03-11  1:23   ` Bill Wohler
2006-03-11  1:29   ` Miles Bader
2006-03-11 12:48     ` Reiner Steib
2006-03-11 23:47       ` Miles Bader
2006-03-12  0:38         ` Bill Wohler
2006-03-13 11:52   ` Katsumi Yamaoka
     [not found]     ` <3861.1142268982@olgas.newt.com>
     [not found]       ` <b4mr755zj4i.fsf@jpl.org>
     [not found]         ` <22907.1142318606@olgas.newt.com>
     [not found]           ` <stewtext5sn.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de>
     [not found]             ` <3669.1142364565@olgas.newt.com>
     [not found]               ` <v9y7zcrbc1.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de>
     [not found]                 ` <7035.1142372131@olgas.newt.com>
     [not found]                   ` <v93bhjrjrd.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de>
     [not found]                     ` <28215.1142437339@olgas.newt.com>
     [not found]                       ` <v9irqf1x1t.fsf_-_@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de>
2006-03-15 22:52                         ` defvars at compile time Katsumi Yamaoka
2006-03-16 18:31                           ` Kevin Rodgers
2006-03-16 22:27                             ` Johan Bockgård
2006-03-16 22:51                               ` Bill Wohler
2006-03-17  2:44                                 ` Miles Bader
2006-03-17 16:32                                   ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2006-03-20  6:31                           ` Stefan Monnier
2006-03-22  1:59                             ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2006-03-22  2:20                               ` Stefan Monnier
2006-03-28  1:41                                 ` Bill Wohler
2006-03-28 19:20                                   ` Stefan Monnier
2006-03-29 23:01                                     ` Richard Stallman
2006-03-28 19:33                                 ` Richard Stallman
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-09-16 10:48 Juanma Barranquero
2005-09-16 11:18 ` David Kastrup
2005-09-16 13:25   ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-09-16 14:59     ` David Kastrup
2005-09-16 15:48     ` Stefan Monnier
2005-09-16 15:51       ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-09-17  4:57 ` Richard M. Stallman

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=E1FKHsR-0000PQ-SE@fencepost.gnu.org \
    --to=rms@gnu.org \
    --cc=emacs-devel@gnu.org \
    --cc=wohler@newt.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this external index

	https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git
	https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git

This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.