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Re: Tabs are ready? -> Let us give a definition of tabs.


From: Nix
Subject: Re: Tabs are ready? -> Let us give a definition of tabs.
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:21:21 +0000
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.93 (gnu/linux)

On 13 Feb 2012, Tom Tromey outgrape:

>>>>>> "Nix" == Nix  <address@hidden> writes:
>
> Nix> Someone really should sit down with *-local variable precedence and give
> Nix> it a good formal backing the way specifiers (sort of) got one.
>
> I was under the (perhaps mistaken?) impression that the decision had
> been made to deprecate frame-locals and not ever introduce other kinds
> of *-local variables, reducing the problem to just dealing with
> buffer-locals.

Well, yes, but that's really *because* nobody could figure out
consistent and unsurprising semantics regarding the interaction of
*-local variables with (let ...). That problem remains: it's there even
for buffer-locals, which we are surely not planning to deprecate.

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