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Re: safe-get
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Kim F. Storm |
Subject: |
Re: safe-get |
Date: |
Thu, 21 Apr 2005 10:09:39 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
> Is there a reason not to make ordinary `get' safe?
Not really, except
a) it will not catch errors in the symbol plist.
b) it is slightly slower
> That would be
> simpler for Lisp programmers than introducing safe-get.
> The code would be simpler, the manual would be simpler, even
> etc/NEWS would be simpler.
I will revert my changes, and just make get safe...
But then, why don't we make plist-get safe
and get rid of safe-plist-get, too ?
IIRC, safe-plist-get is new in 22.1, so I don't see any big
problems doing that...
--
Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk
- safe-get, Richard Stallman, 2005/04/20
- Re: safe-get, Stefan Monnier, 2005/04/20
- Re: safe-get,
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