From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: master f515d658e5 1/2: Don't quote numbers in byte-run--set-*
Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2022 19:12:01 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvmte8uu56.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h74gthgl.fsf@gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Mon, 20 Jun 2022 00:29:46 +0200")
Lars Ingebrigtsen [2022-06-20 00:29:46] wrote:
> Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>> My proposal was to change the semantics, rather than to "avoid if".
>> According to it,
>> (declare (doc-string (foo bar)))
>> would actually set `doc-string-elt` to the return value of calling (foo
>> bar) rather than setting it to the list `(foo bar)`.
> Oh, right... Hm. I don't really have an opinion about that, but it's
> pretty unusual for declare forms to not be literal, I think?
Part of the motivation was indeed to change those habits.
I think the quoting used all over the place is mostly an accident that
happens to usually be harmless, rather than a feature.
Stefan
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2022-06-17 17:58 ` master f515d658e5 1/2: Don't quote numbers in byte-run--set-* Stefan Monnier
2022-06-17 18:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-06-17 18:08 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-06-17 18:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-06-18 11:32 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-06-18 13:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-06-19 11:10 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-06-19 12:57 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2022-06-19 13:15 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-06-19 16:19 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-06-19 22:30 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-06-19 22:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-06-19 22:29 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-06-19 23:12 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
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