From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Propagating local variables? Date: Thu, 17 May 2018 22:33:27 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87in7mv5jn.fsf@xps13.shealevy.com> <1148d91b-92a2-e970-e6cb-0fcc0a951c8c@gmail.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1526610697 19936 195.159.176.226 (18 May 2018 02:31:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 18 May 2018 02:31:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Cl=C3=A9ment?= Pit-Claudel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 18 04:31:33 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fJVB6-00053h-ND for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 May 2018 04:31:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36349 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fJVDD-00081m-Qs for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 17 May 2018 22:33:43 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35374) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fJVD0-0007zp-G6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 May 2018 22:33:31 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fJVCz-0001jq-Iq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 May 2018 22:33:30 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:60107) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fJVCy-0001il-2u; Thu, 17 May 2018 22:33:28 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1fJVCx-0004TX-Fh; Thu, 17 May 2018 22:33:27 -0400 In-reply-to: <1148d91b-92a2-e970-e6cb-0fcc0a951c8c@gmail.com> (message from =?iso-8859-1?Q?Cl=C3=A9ment?= Pit-Claudel on Thu, 17 May 2018 10:27:56 -0400) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:225384 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > We now have variable watchers: If this watcher facility is exactly right for propagating variables, we can use it. However, I tend to think that implementing propagating variables without new primitive features will lead to kludges and/or doing the wrong think in some cases. I think we should implement it at C level rather than make any compromises in their semantics. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See https://stallman.org/skype.html.