From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Multiple major modes Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2007 13:21:25 -0400 Message-ID: References: <466E7A93.3050705@gmail.com> <466E81AA.3030202@gnu.org> <466E9822.2050508@gmail.com> <466EAB9D.9020408@gnu.org> <466EEA71.2070700@gmail.com> <200706122014.l5CKEKV1021902@projectile.siege-engine.com> <200706190209.l5J29Csr010302@projectile.siege-engine.com> <200706251404.l5PE4dgc011720@projectile.siege-engine.com> <200707050144.l651iOeu023173@projectile.siege-engine.com> <200707090049.l690nf6e027141@projectile.siege-engine.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1184001678 9873 80.91.229.12 (9 Jul 2007 17:21:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2007 17:21:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: jasonr@gnu.org, lennart.borgman@gmail.com, sdl.web@gmail.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Eric M. Ludlam" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 09 19:21:15 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1I7wvC-0004sZ-AC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Jul 2007 19:21:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I7wvB-00035a-MY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Jul 2007 13:21:13 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I7wv7-00031s-Pz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Jul 2007 13:21:09 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I7wv7-00031M-Ch for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Jul 2007 13:21:09 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I7wv7-00031C-9M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Jul 2007 13:21:09 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1I7wv7-0005Ly-1R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Jul 2007 13:21:09 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1I7wvN-0007u6-Kn; Mon, 09 Jul 2007 13:21:25 -0400 In-reply-to: <200707090049.l690nf6e027141@projectile.siege-engine.com> (eric@siege-engine.com) X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:74507 Archived-At: I now see that my previous concerns were misguided. (I had misunderstood what the feature does.) This feature doesn't cause a problem like that of advice. It seems like basically a good idea. I do have a criticism of one part of the API, though. (defun semantic-analyze-split-name-default (name) "Don't split up NAME by default." name) It seems like a mistake to make the API depend on manipulating symbol names. I'd rather have a separate construct to define the default meaning, giving the standard name, here `semantic-analyze-split-name'. How does it actually work?