GNU bug report logs - #12215
CSET is unnecessarily confusing

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 00:14:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: patch

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: Tom Tromey <tromey <at> redhat.com>, 12215 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Chong Yidong <cyd <at> gnu.org>, Dmitry Antipov <dmantipov <at> yandex.ru>
Subject: bug#12215: CSET is unnecessarily confusing
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 21:58:25 -0400

> Ah, sorry, I misunderstood.  But still, currently the people
> who are actually doing those experiments (Dmitry, Tom) don't
> need these macros and don't particularly want them.

AFAIK that's true of BVAR but not of setter macros (which Dmitry does
need).

> And Chong is calling BVAR "horrible".

Yes, tho the issue is the use of field names in syntactic contexts where
they can be confused for variable names.


        Stefan
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