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Re: The purpose of makunbound


From: Kelly Dean
Subject: Re: The purpose of makunbound
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2015 09:02:18 +0000

Richard Stallman wrote:
>> So, I propose a global search/replace in the source code of
>> ⌜Qunbound⌝ to ⌜Qvoid⌝. Maybe you'll think that in some places, it
>> really makes more sense to interpret it as «unbound», not
>> «void». However, that would be inconsistent, if makunbound is
>> allowed to function on non-global (i.e. let-bound or buffer-local)
>> variables.
>
> I don't see an inconsistency.  I think the term "void" is fine with
> the existing behavior.

Ok, great! Since the term ‟void” is fine, let's use ⌜Qvoid⌝ for the 
corresponding constant in the source code.



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