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Re: gas-mode.el - Comments welcome
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David Kastrup |
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Re: gas-mode.el - Comments welcome |
Date: |
Thu, 31 May 2007 11:07:35 +0200 |
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"Heike C. Zimmerer" <address@hidden> writes:
>> - fix naming to use the `gas-' (or `asm-') prefix for vars such as
>> `line-cache'. Provide defvars with docstring explaning what
>> they contain.
>
> The caches are always buffer-local. According to what I learned
> from the documentation, the prefix is only required for globals.
Buffer-local variables have global bindings (they don't go away after
a function finishes). You are confusing them with let-bound
variables.
> I sometimes even deliberately removed the prefix from symbols to
> emphasize on its local binding (as here). Anything wrong with it?
Yes. Conflict with similarly named variables elsewhere.
--
David Kastrup