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Re: obsolete comment in tool-bar.el


From: Luc Teirlinck
Subject: Re: obsolete comment in tool-bar.el
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 22:24:48 -0500 (CDT)

>From my previous message:

   There is the question of whether my changes should be reverted.  They
   do not result in any change in behavior whatsoever, but they avoid
   confusion for somebody who expands the macro to see what the
   define-minor-mode form he wrote really does (as anybody who uses
   define-minor-mode should do).  So it seems that my changes actually
   were positive, even though not really necessary.  It is a little bit
   inconsistent to do this for :initialize and not for :set and :type,
   but since :initialize will be used more often, it might make sense.

More precisely, without my changes, if you specify an explicit
:initialize keyword, the expansion of the define-minor-mode form
contains two :initialize keywords, first
":initialize 'custom-initialize-default" and then, at some later place
the explicit :initialize.  The last one, the explicit :initialize
wins, but since the two may be separated by other code, it might
confuse the person reading the expanded version of the macro.  With my
changes (that is with current CVS), the defcustom has only one
:initialize form, the explicitly specified one.  However, explicitly
specified :set or :type keywords still expand to defcustoms with two
:set or :type keywords.

Sincerely,

Luc.






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