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Re: locate-file in Emacs
From: |
Hrvoje Niksic |
Subject: |
Re: locate-file in Emacs |
Date: |
Thu, 18 Apr 2002 18:49:21 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) XEmacs/21.4 (Common Lisp, i686-pc-linux) |
Miles Bader <address@hidden> writes:
> Hrvoje Niksic <address@hidden> writes:
>> > I think that probably the best thing to do is to simply deprecate
>> > the MODE interface
>>
>> You find it best, but I don't agree. I think MODE is nice for the
>> added efficiency (which my implementation doesn't use).
>
> I think that the common cases could (and probably should) be hardwired
> for efficiency's sake. [E.g., (eq predicate 'file-executable-p) ]
Maybe. But playing that kind of game can be extremely dangerous.
People can and do redefine built-in functions for all kinds of
reasons. When I say `file-executable-p', I expect *that* to be run,
and not something else.
- Re: locate-file in Emacs, (continued)
- Re: locate-file in Emacs, Hrvoje Niksic, 2002/04/18
- Re: locate-file in Emacs, Stefan Monnier, 2002/04/18
- Re: locate-file in Emacs, Hrvoje Niksic, 2002/04/25
- Re: locate-file in Emacs, Stefan Monnier, 2002/04/25
- Re: locate-file in Emacs, Richard Stallman, 2002/04/19
- Re: locate-file in Emacs, Miles Bader, 2002/04/18
- Re: locate-file in Emacs, Hrvoje Niksic, 2002/04/18
- Re: locate-file in Emacs, Miles Bader, 2002/04/18
- Re: locate-file in Emacs,
Hrvoje Niksic <=
- Re: locate-file in Emacs, Miles Bader, 2002/04/18