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Re: Allow specifying services as symbols?
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Ted Zlatanov |
Subject: |
Re: Allow specifying services as symbols? |
Date: |
Wed, 20 Oct 2010 11:21:06 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 11:36:00 -0400 Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> wrote:
>> The issue came up as a customization user-side problem and I suggested
>> allowing symbols. Using symbols is consistent with many other Emacs
>> facilities (too many to list) that use symbols to enumerate a small set
>> of choices. It makes customization simpler and less error-prone for
>> software that uses `make-network-process'. It doesn't really cost
SM> We're talking about an argument to a function, so it's not directly
SM> related to customization. IOW if there's a problem with customization,
SM> it can be fixed elsewhere.
OK, let's forget about the patch. There's too many useful cases where a
symbol could be passed to `make-network-process' as the service name and
trigger special behavior, plus there's no real need for changing the
current behavior.
Ted
- Allow specifying services as symbols?, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2010/10/19
- Re: Allow specifying services as symbols?, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/10/19
- Re: Allow specifying services as symbols?, Ted Zlatanov, 2010/10/19
- Re: Allow specifying services as symbols?, Davis Herring, 2010/10/19
- Re: Allow specifying services as symbols?, Ted Zlatanov, 2010/10/20
- Re: Allow specifying services as symbols?, Andreas Schwab, 2010/10/20
- Re: Allow specifying services as symbols?, Ted Zlatanov, 2010/10/20