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From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: opaque data types [revise and resend]
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 00:00:32 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2sj0qehsv.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 874nd99kwf.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp

On Sat, 08 Jun 2013 15:28:00 +0900 "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org> wrote: 

SJT> So it's a question of how you balance the needs.  I'm certainly not
SJT> recommending use of Java over Lisp!  However, there are some common
SJT> structures like mappings that are well-served by opaque data types,
SJT> and some specialized ones like characters (!) and keymaps where Emacs
SJT> implementers are well-served.

I agree :) In fact my other post in this thread is (again) defending an
opaque data type for password data.

Ted




  reply	other threads:[~2013-06-10  4:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-04 22:44 plist-based package.el (was Re: cl-defstruct-based package.el, now with ert tests and no external tar!) Daniel Hackney
2013-06-04 23:01 ` Dmitry Gutov
2013-06-05 14:53   ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-06-05 17:41     ` Stefan Monnier
2013-06-05 17:56       ` Drew Adams
2013-06-05 18:06         ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-06-06  9:30           ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-06-06 12:51             ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-06-07  3:07               ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-06-07 13:03                 ` opaque data types (was: plist-based package.el (was Re: cl-defstruct-based package.el, now with ert tests and no external tar!)) Ted Zlatanov
2013-06-07 13:27                   ` opaque data types Christopher Schmidt
2013-06-07 14:11                     ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-06-07 15:44                       ` Christopher Schmidt
2013-06-07 16:01                         ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-06-08  9:19                           ` Christopher Schmidt
2013-06-10  3:56                             ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-06-07 16:17                   ` Stefan Monnier
2013-06-07 17:48                     ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-06-08  6:11                   ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-06-08  6:28                   ` opaque data types [revise and resend] Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-06-10  4:00                     ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]
2013-06-05  1:34 ` plist-based package.el (was Re: cl-defstruct-based package.el, now with ert tests and no external tar!) Stefan Monnier
2013-06-06  1:31   ` Daniel Hackney
2013-06-08  6:47     ` Rand User

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