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Re: Should `cancel-timer' use `delete' instead of `delq'?


From: David Kastrup
Subject: Re: Should `cancel-timer' use `delete' instead of `delq'?
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2006 09:29:32 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux)

"Drew Adams" <address@hidden> writes:

>     > I was able to be bitten by it, using C-M-x on the defvar.
>
>     That's a good point, but it's also a very special case -- if you're
>     using a debugging command to _force_ a construct to act in an abnormal
>     manner, you presumably know what your doing.
>
> Knowing what you're doing, when you think about it, does not always
> imply thinking about what you're doing, when you do it.

When in doubt, Emacs should bite rather the people who don't know what
they are doing than those who do.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum




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