Re: master 3b41141708: Expose the name of an event's input device to Lisp

[Po Lu]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> We could put it in the "posn" thingy, but at the same time it's not
> really a "posn" and it's kinda weird to duplicate it into the start and
> the end posn of an event.  It would be better to associate it with the
> event itself and have an `event-device` function to access it.

But wouldn't that mean the `event-device' function would have to have a
specific implementation for each kind of event, with different indexes
passed to `nth', since we can only add information to the end of each
event?

That's the sort of thing I was trying to avoid.

Thanks.