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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>,
	dima@secretsauce.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Can we expand the valid location of "Local Variables" ?
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2020 13:24:12 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv1rpjc7q8.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83k13bawyn.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Mon, 23 Mar 2020 17:54:08 +0200")

> Possibly.  Stefan didn't say why he thought adding a variable was an
> improvement, but my guess would be ease of change in the future.

I explained that I don't really want it to be a *variable* but I think
we should remove the various occurrences of 3000 and replace them with
a reference to a centralized place where this *constant* is defined,
with a name that explains what it is.  For the usual software
engineering reasons that say that arbitrary constants should be named.

IIUC this constant is also used from Elisp so it has to be exported to
Elisp where we don't really have constants.  Also I don't see why we
should go out of our way to make it hard for the user to change it.

So an *internal variable* sounds good to me,


        Stefan




  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-03-23 17:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-10 20:56 Can we expand the valid location of "Local Variables" ? Dima Kogan
2020-03-10 21:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-03-10 23:44   ` Dima Kogan
2020-03-11  2:01     ` Stefan Monnier
2020-03-22 23:08   ` Dima Kogan
2020-03-23  8:25     ` Robert Pluim
2020-03-23 14:17       ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-23 15:28         ` Robert Pluim
2020-03-23 15:54           ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-23 17:03             ` Dima Kogan
2020-03-23 17:24             ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2020-03-24  2:20           ` Richard Stallman
2020-03-12  2:26 ` Richard Stallman
2020-03-14  5:54   ` Steve Youngs
2020-03-14  7:07     ` Stefan Monnier
2020-03-15  3:08     ` Richard Stallman
2020-03-15  6:41       ` Steve Youngs
2020-03-16  3:36         ` Richard Stallman
2020-03-23 15:56 ` Yuri Khan
2020-03-23 16:55   ` Dima Kogan

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