From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: michael_heerdegen@web.de, 18051@debbugs.gnu.org, michael.albinus@gmx.de
Subject: bug#18051: 24.3.92; ls-lisp: Sorting; make ls-lisp-string-lessp a normal function?
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 23:23:58 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvr401ti11.fsf-monnier+emacsbugs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83egw1kh6i.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Wed, 27 Aug 2014 19:53:25 +0300")
>> Normally one controls functions through their arguments, not the
>> environment.
> We also have the other variety, e.g. see coding-system-for-read.
Yes, we have a lot of that, but that's only used when adding an optional
argument was not really practical, in which case dynamic scoping comes
to the rescue (but with several caveats).
In the present case I don't see why we can't use an optional argument,
so an optional arg would be preferable.
Stefan
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2014-07-18 6:22 ` bug#18051: 24.3.92; ls-lisp: Sorting; make ls-lisp-string-lessp a normal function? Michael Heerdegen
2014-07-18 6:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-07-18 7:33 ` Michael Heerdegen
2014-07-18 8:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-07-18 9:37 ` Michael Heerdegen
2014-07-18 9:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-07-18 10:18 ` Michael Heerdegen
2014-07-18 13:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-07-19 1:25 ` Michael Heerdegen
2014-07-19 8:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-07-19 10:52 ` Michael Heerdegen
2014-07-19 10:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-07-18 9:24 ` Michael Albinus
2014-07-18 9:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-07-18 10:12 ` Michael Albinus
2014-07-18 12:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-07-18 13:18 ` Michael Albinus
2014-07-18 13:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-07-18 16:21 ` Michael Albinus
2014-07-20 5:49 ` Michael Heerdegen
2014-07-20 6:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-07-20 6:21 ` Michael Heerdegen
2014-07-20 6:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-07-20 7:30 ` Michael Heerdegen
2014-07-20 8:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-07-20 8:24 ` Michael Heerdegen
2014-07-20 8:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-07-20 9:15 ` Michael Heerdegen
2014-07-20 9:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-07-20 11:44 ` Michael Albinus
2014-07-20 11:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-07-20 15:26 ` Michael Albinus
2014-07-20 16:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-08-16 21:52 ` Michael Albinus
2014-08-17 16:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-08-17 17:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-08-17 18:46 ` Michael Albinus
2014-08-17 18:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-08-21 9:05 ` Michael Albinus
2014-08-21 14:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-08-22 14:23 ` Michael Albinus
2014-08-23 9:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-08-23 16:42 ` Michael Albinus
2014-08-23 17:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-08-23 20:32 ` Michael Albinus
2014-08-24 14:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-08-24 16:18 ` Michael Albinus
2014-08-25 15:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-08-27 8:49 ` Michael Albinus
2014-08-27 15:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-08-27 18:02 ` Michael Albinus
2014-08-27 15:48 ` Glenn Morris
2014-08-27 16:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-08-28 3:23 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2014-08-27 18:08 ` Michael Albinus
2014-08-27 18:30 ` Glenn Morris
2014-08-25 16:45 ` Glenn Morris
2014-08-25 17:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-07-20 6:18 ` Michael Heerdegen
2014-07-20 14:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-08-27 23:57 ` bug#18051: trunk r117751: Improve robustness of new string-collation code Katsumi Yamaoka
2014-08-28 0:51 ` Paul Eggert
2014-08-28 3:09 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
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