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Re: (featurep 'multi-tty) => t on Windows
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: (featurep 'multi-tty) => t on Windows |
Date: |
Sat, 13 Dec 2008 05:24:43 -0500 |
> From: address@hidden
> Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 23:03:51 -0700
>
> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> >
> > And how exactly is
> >
> > (if (featurep 'foo)
> > (something))
> >
> > cleaner than the latter?
>
> It's clearer in intention, if nothing else.
Unless "something" includes "foo" as a substring, I don't see how it
is clearer.
> If I understand correctly,
> Juanma considers checking for the existence of a feature to be a cleaner
> way of writing feature specific code than checking for some function
> that may be an indication that such a feature might exist. The two
> approaches are equal in lines of code, but checking for a function so
> that ou may execute code that has nothing to do with that function is
> uglier (though equivalently effective).
Yes, that's what Juanma says, I just am not sure I agree.
- Re: (featurep 'multi-tty) => t on Windows, (continued)
- Re: (featurep 'multi-tty) => t on Windows, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/12/11
- Re: (featurep 'multi-tty) => t on Windows, Juanma Barranquero, 2008/12/11
- Re: (featurep 'multi-tty) => t on Windows, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/12/12
- Re: (featurep 'multi-tty) => t on Windows, Juanma Barranquero, 2008/12/12
- Re: (featurep 'multi-tty) => t on Windows, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/12/12
- Re: (featurep 'multi-tty) => t on Windows, Juanma Barranquero, 2008/12/12
- Re: (featurep 'multi-tty) => t on Windows, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/12/12
- Re: (featurep 'multi-tty) => t on Windows, Juanma Barranquero, 2008/12/12
- Re: (featurep 'multi-tty) => t on Windows, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/12/12
- Re: (featurep 'multi-tty) => t on Windows, mail, 2008/12/13
- Re: (featurep 'multi-tty) => t on Windows,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: (featurep 'multi-tty) => t on Windows, Juanma Barranquero, 2008/12/13
- Re: (featurep 'multi-tty) => t on Windows, Stefan Monnier, 2008/12/13
- Re: (featurep 'multi-tty) => t on Windows, Juanma Barranquero, 2008/12/13
- Re: (featurep 'multi-tty) => t on Windows, Stefan Monnier, 2008/12/13
- Re: (featurep 'multi-tty) => t on Windows, Juanma Barranquero, 2008/12/13
- Re: (featurep 'multi-tty) => t on Windows, Richard M Stallman, 2008/12/13
- Re: (featurep 'multi-tty) => t on Windows, Juanma Barranquero, 2008/12/13
- Re: (featurep 'multi-tty) => t on Windows, Chetan Pandya, 2008/12/11
- Re: (featurep 'multi-tty) => t on Windows, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/12/12
- Re: (featurep 'multi-tty) => t on Windows, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/12/11