From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
To: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord)
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Adding streams for standard out and standard err
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2016 09:35:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <mvmr3ai5fw7.fsf@hawking.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87shv23kac.fsf@russet.org.uk> (Phillip Lord's message of "Thu, 21 Jul 2016 19:42:19 +0100")
phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord) writes:
> Yes, this is true, although they only print single characters, which is
> pretty useless for most people. In actual use, they look like this:
>
> (print "hello" 'stdout)
>
>
> Extending the name to reflect the full function:
>
> (print "hello" 'printchar-to-stdout)
>
> Seemed a bit duplicative to me.
But it is not an object, but a function, and its name should describe
its function.
Andreas.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-07-25 7:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-07-20 22:48 Adding streams for standard out and standard err Phillip Lord
2016-07-21 7:12 ` Andreas Schwab
2016-07-21 18:42 ` Phillip Lord
2016-07-25 7:35 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2016-07-21 14:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-07-21 14:40 ` Paul Eggert
2016-07-21 15:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-07-21 19:01 ` Phillip Lord
2016-07-21 18:52 ` Phillip Lord
2016-07-21 19:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-07-21 20:13 ` Phillip Lord
2016-07-22 6:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-07-22 15:43 ` Phillip Lord
2016-07-21 22:15 ` Davis Herring
2016-08-02 23:35 ` John Wiegley
2016-07-22 14:48 ` Phil Sainty
2016-07-22 15:42 ` Phillip Lord
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