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bug#12215: CSET is unnecessarily confusing
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Stefan Monnier |
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bug#12215: CSET is unnecessarily confusing |
Date: |
Wed, 22 Aug 2012 09:27:03 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.1.50 (gnu/linux) |
>> CSET (XCHAR_TABLE (char_table), ->parent, parent);
> That does avoid the ambiguity but it's pretty weird.
Less weird than CSET (XCHAR_TABLE (char_table), parent, parent),
and avoids the duplication of code we have with set_char_table_foobar.
> How about something like this instead?
> cset (XCHAR_TABLE (char_table), cset_parent, parent);
> where cset_parent is an offset into the structure, or
> is a member of a simple enumeration, whichever seems
> cleaner. This would be functional and relatively
> straightforward.
Yuck!
- code duplication.
- offset into a struct instead of a plain field access?
- worse, an enum instead of a plain field access?
A non-starter.
Stefan
- bug#12215: CSET is unnecessarily confusing, Paul Eggert, 2012/08/16
- bug#12215: CSET is unnecessarily confusing, Dmitry Antipov, 2012/08/17
- bug#12215: CSET is unnecessarily confusing, Stefan Monnier, 2012/08/21
- bug#12215: CSET is unnecessarily confusing, Stefan Monnier, 2012/08/21
- bug#12215: CSET is unnecessarily confusing, Paul Eggert, 2012/08/21
- bug#12215: CSET is unnecessarily confusing, Stefan Monnier, 2012/08/23
- bug#12215: CSET is unnecessarily confusing, Paul Eggert, 2012/08/23
- bug#12215: CSET is unnecessarily confusing, Chong Yidong, 2012/08/23
- bug#12215: CSET is unnecessarily confusing, Paul Eggert, 2012/08/23
- bug#12215: CSET is unnecessarily confusing, Dmitry Antipov, 2012/08/24
- bug#12215: CSET is unnecessarily confusing, Stefan Monnier, 2012/08/24
- bug#12215: CSET is unnecessarily confusing, Paul Eggert, 2012/08/24