From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>, Chong Yidong <cyd@gnu.org>,
12215@debbugs.gnu.org, Dmitry Antipov <dmantipov@yandex.ru>
Subject: bug#12215: CSET is unnecessarily confusing
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 21:58:25 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvk3wnrazp.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <503819A5.10908@cs.ucla.edu> (Paul Eggert's message of "Fri, 24 Aug 2012 17:17:41 -0700")
> Ah, sorry, I misunderstood. But still, currently the people
> who are actually doing those experiments (Dmitry, Tom) don't
> need these macros and don't particularly want them.
AFAIK that's true of BVAR but not of setter macros (which Dmitry does
need).
> And Chong is calling BVAR "horrible".
Yes, tho the issue is the use of field names in syntactic contexts where
they can be confused for variable names.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-08-25 1:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-17 0:04 bug#12215: CSET is unnecessarily confusing Paul Eggert
2012-08-17 4:12 ` Dmitry Antipov
2012-08-21 16:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-08-22 3:25 ` Paul Eggert
2012-08-22 13:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-08-22 16:35 ` Paul Eggert
2012-08-22 16:50 ` Dmitry Antipov
2012-08-23 7:02 ` Paul Eggert
2012-08-23 12:26 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-08-23 14:40 ` Paul Eggert
2012-08-24 3:46 ` Chong Yidong
2012-08-24 3:57 ` Paul Eggert
2012-08-24 4:26 ` Dmitry Antipov
2012-08-24 15:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-08-24 17:19 ` Paul Eggert
2012-08-24 17:27 ` Tom Tromey
2012-08-24 18:11 ` Paul Eggert
2012-08-24 21:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-08-25 0:17 ` Paul Eggert
2012-08-25 1:58 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2012-08-26 5:05 ` Paul Eggert
2012-08-21 17:55 ` Stefan Monnier
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