From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: giving `setq-local' the same signature as `setq' Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2015 12:24:17 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1426695880 12852 80.91.229.3 (18 Mar 2015 16:24:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2015 16:24:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Jordon Biondo Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 18 17:24:33 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YYGlg-0006JM-9U for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 Mar 2015 17:24:28 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34719 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YYGlf-00049v-MT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 Mar 2015 12:24:27 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56530) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YYGld-00049e-5u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Mar 2015 12:24:25 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YYGlZ-00086j-Aa for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Mar 2015 12:24:25 -0400 Original-Received: from pruche.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.22]:35821) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YYGlZ-00086Z-55 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Mar 2015 12:24:21 -0400 Original-Received: from pastel.home (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by pruche.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id t2IGOIau028193; Wed, 18 Mar 2015 12:24:18 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id D4C03A00; Wed, 18 Mar 2015 12:24:17 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Jordon Biondo's message of "Wed, 18 Mar 2015 11:26:01 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-NAI-Spam-Flag: NO X-NAI-Spam-Threshold: 5 X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 1 Rules triggered RV5249=0 X-NAI-Spam-Version: 2.3.0.9393 : core <5249> : inlines <2435> : streams <1407574> : uri <1883853> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 132.204.246.22 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:183997 Archived-At: > I=E2=80=99ve often run into an issue when assuming `setq-local=E2=80=99 b= ehave like > `setq=E2=80=99 by accepting multiple [SYM VAL] pairs and returning the va= lue > 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