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Re: doc of defining minor modes
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: doc of defining minor modes |
Date: |
Fri, 19 May 2006 12:43:06 -0400 |
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> It's not obvious to readers of the doc why we provide an :init-value
> possibility and yet we warn people not to use it (except in a rare case).
> There needs to be a good explanation of this uncommon coupling.
> The explanation needs to indicate how the problem that the admonition
> hopes to prevent could arise, that is, _how_ a library might get loaded
> without being loaded directly by the user. That is not obvious.
I don't think it's worth the trouble to write a long explanation.
It's perfectly OK to have arguments and features marked as "don't ever use
this unless you really know what you're doing".
Stefan
- Re: doc of defining minor modes, (continued)
- Re: doc of defining minor modes, David Kastrup, 2006/05/18
- RE: doc of defining minor modes, Drew Adams, 2006/05/18
- Re: doc of defining minor modes, David Kastrup, 2006/05/18
- RE: doc of defining minor modes, Drew Adams, 2006/05/18
- Re: doc of defining minor modes, David Kastrup, 2006/05/19
- RE: doc of defining minor modes, Drew Adams, 2006/05/19
- RE: doc of defining minor modes, Drew Adams, 2006/05/19
- Re: doc of defining minor modes, David Kastrup, 2006/05/19
- RE: doc of defining minor modes, Drew Adams, 2006/05/19
- Re: doc of defining minor modes, Andreas Schwab, 2006/05/19
- Re: doc of defining minor modes,
Stefan Monnier <=
- RE: doc of defining minor modes, Drew Adams, 2006/05/19
- Re: doc of defining minor modes, David Kastrup, 2006/05/19
- Re: doc of defining minor modes, Stefan Monnier, 2006/05/19
- Re: doc of defining minor modes, Miles Bader, 2006/05/18
Re: doc of defining minor modes, David Kastrup, 2006/05/18
Re: doc of defining minor modes, Richard Stallman, 2006/05/18