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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




  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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