GNU bug report logs - #21709
25.0.50; doc of :variable in `define-minor-mode'

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Reported by: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2015 15:16:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Merged with 14875

Found in versions 24.3.50, 25.0.50

Fixed in version 28.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

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From: Random832 <random832 <at> fastmail.com>
To: 21709 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#21709: 25.0.50; doc of :variable in `define-minor-mode'
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2015 12:48:14 -0400

Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com> writes:
> Surely the function does not "set" a "state".  It might set the
> variable to a new value (but it does not "set" the value).

A state could be a single variable, it could be a dozen variables, it
could be a file on the disk [which GET reads and SET writes] - the point
is to have an abstraction that doesn't care what it is.

Seems like what it really is is a "hackish" way to define a generalized
variable without actually defining one. A sort of "generalized variable
lambda" except for the fact that setf doesn't actually support it.
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