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Re: condition-case-no-debug


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: condition-case-no-debug
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 20:40:34 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux)

>> I don't want to install condition-case-no-debug,
>> because the other feature I desiged makes it unnecessary.
>> Would you please remove condition-case-no-debug
>> and implement the new feature in eval.c?

>     What new feature are you talking about?

> The feature of putting `debug' into the list of conditions
> meaning "don't catch these when debugging".

As explained I find it to be a bad design: it changes the meaning of
a pre-existing syntax, and it requires changes both in C and in the
byte-compiler.  For such a very minor feature, I believe a macro is a much
better fit.


        Stefan




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