From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Jordon Biondo <jordonbiondo@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: giving `setq-local' the same signature as `setq'
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2015 12:24:17 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv1tkm9svd.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <B44CB2F3-655B-4263-BB1F-588C67F8017B@gmail.com> (Jordon Biondo's message of "Wed, 18 Mar 2015 11:26:01 -0400")
> I’ve often run into an issue when assuming `setq-local’ behave like
> `setq’ by accepting multiple [SYM VAL] pairs and returning the value
> assigned to the last symbol rather than only accepting one symbol and
> one value.
I find this behavior of `setq' to be a misfeature, which is why
I haven't adopted it for setq-local.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-03-18 16:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-03-18 15:26 giving `setq-local' the same signature as `setq' Jordon Biondo
2015-03-18 16:24 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2015-03-19 14:08 ` Richard Stallman
2015-03-19 14:48 ` Jordon Biondo
2015-03-19 15:11 ` Drew Adams
2015-03-19 15:17 ` Oleh Krehel
2015-03-19 15:39 ` Drew Adams
2015-03-19 15:55 ` Oleh Krehel
2015-03-19 17:25 ` Drew Adams
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