From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: xah@xahlee.org
Cc: Geoff Gole <geoffgole@gmail.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Idempotency of add-hook wrt lambda expressions
Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2009 16:23:56 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvmyc10ys8.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <aa6b5cbe0903041213s3df9d4c8h5c6a936aee8ffb16@mail.gmail.com> (xah lee's message of "Wed, 4 Mar 2009 12:13:08 -0800")
> if the code suggested does fix this without any other problems, why not?
Because it's a hack. So it takes care of 80% of the cases but still
doesn't fix the remaining cases. Fixing the remaining cases requires
using a symbol, so just use a symbol and get on with your life.
I'd much rather add a patch that complains when you pass a lambda to
add-hook.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-04 21:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-04 12:10 Idempotency of add-hook wrt lambda expressions Geoff Gole
2009-03-04 14:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-03-04 20:13 ` xah lee
2009-03-04 21:23 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2009-03-04 21:27 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-03-05 17:22 ` M Jared Finder
2009-03-04 21:00 ` David Reitter
2009-03-05 1:27 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-03-05 1:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-03-05 8:23 ` Geoff Gole
2009-03-05 9:49 ` David Kastrup
2009-03-05 11:41 ` tomas
2009-03-05 11:53 ` Geoff Gole
2009-03-05 16:45 ` Alan Mackenzie
2009-03-05 16:33 ` Helmut Eller
2009-03-05 16:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-03-05 16:50 ` Geoff Gole
2009-03-05 16:38 ` Alan Mackenzie
2009-03-05 20:44 ` Reiner Steib
2009-03-05 20:59 ` Edward O'Connor
2009-03-05 21:08 ` Reiner Steib
2009-03-06 9:36 ` David Kastrup
2009-03-05 16:12 ` Alan Mackenzie
2009-03-05 16:37 ` Stefan Monnier
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