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: RFC: status icon support Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 21:42:34 -0500 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1200451401 31170 80.91.229.12 (16 Jan 2008 02:43:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 02:43:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: mituharu@math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Tom Tromey Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 16 03:43:44 2008 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 1JEyFk-0000i4-1X for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Jan 2008 03:43:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JEyFL-0000kq-Io for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Jan 2008 21:43:19 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JEyEi-0000T8-0o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Jan 2008 21:42:40 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JEyEg-0000SR-Hp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Jan 2008 21:42:39 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JEyEg-0000SL-66 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Jan 2008 21:42:38 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JEyEg-00041X-Ca for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Jan 2008 21:42:38 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1JEyEc-00062y-Sd; Tue, 15 Jan 2008 21:42:34 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Tom Tromey on Mon, 14 Jan 2008 10:10:34 -0700) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: 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:86960 Archived-At: There's no deep reason for it, it is just the approach I picked, by analogy to frames and other programming languages, where adding new types is unexceptional. I don't mind changing it to be a cons if that is the preferred Emacs way. It would be better to avoid adding a data type for this, just because there's a lot of conceptual overhead for that.