From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 15122@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#15122: 24.3.50; [PATCH] byte-compiler warnings about destructive functions
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 10:39:54 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv1u5opgwm.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <788e435c-ad81-40b1-8f92-3a55d3da6cd9@default> (Drew Adams's message of "Tue, 20 Aug 2013 07:07:36 -0700 (PDT)")
>> > might not be aware of when they might be doing so. I mentioned Scheme's
>> > explicit choice to name all such functions in a noticeable way. Drawing
>> > attention to (all) use of destructive operations is not necessarily a
>> > useless thing, depending on the user and context.
>> Yes, I like Scheme's convention.
> Then consider adding (subtle, optional) font-lock highlighting of such.
> That would anyway be better than compiler warnings. The list of fns
> I came up with is a start. You might even consider putting a recognizable
> property on the function symbols, as well.
Font-lock might be a good idea, indeed.
We could also additionally start to introduce Scheme-style names, like
sort!, reverse!, butlast!, ...
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-08-20 14:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-08-18 5:26 bug#15122: 24.3.50; [PATCH] byte-compiler warnings about destructive functions Drew Adams
2013-08-18 18:38 ` Richard Stallman
2013-08-19 2:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-08-19 5:07 ` Drew Adams
2013-08-20 5:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-08-20 14:07 ` Drew Adams
2013-08-20 14:39 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2013-08-20 15:15 ` Drew Adams
2013-08-21 1:00 ` Leo Liu
2013-08-21 4:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-08-21 16:54 ` Richard Stallman
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