From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: adding to emacs coding standard / formatting Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2020 01:11:54 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20201019031002.iulr45ztrkwsiqlo@E15-2016.optimum.net> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="7913"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Boruch Baum Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 20 07:12:50 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kUjx4-0001x7-II for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 20 Oct 2020 07:12:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48952 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kUjx3-0003uP-Kp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 20 Oct 2020 01:12:49 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:33522) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kUjwC-00032A-I3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Oct 2020 01:11:56 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:49257) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kUjwC-0005Sw-8m; Tue, 20 Oct 2020 01:11:56 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kUjwA-0000hp-TB; Tue, 20 Oct 2020 01:11:55 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20201019031002.iulr45ztrkwsiqlo@E15-2016.optimum.net> (message from Boruch Baum on Sun, 18 Oct 2020 23:10:02 -0400) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:258157 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. ]]] > Also, this is an opportunity to address a pet peeve: I occasionally see > code either defining keybindings to lambda functions, or setting lambda > functions as elements of function lists (eg. lists of hook functions). > I'd like to propose that those uses be banned because of their > difficulty to modify. I think we recommend not doing that. Maybe we should say this also in tips.texi. Want to propose a patch? -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)