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Re: One-off history for read-string
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Emanuel Berg |
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Re: One-off history for read-string |
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Sun, 27 Sep 2015 03:20:51 +0200 |
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Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> writes:
> From Emacs' point of view, it's kind of read-only;
> while read-string does write to it, it _doesn't
> matter_ at all. But you can call it what you want.
> I'm not very good at naming things, apparently.
It is not a good policy to name things after
properties that doesn't matter.
Also, most often it is not a good idea to name things
in terms of technology but rather their
purpose/usefulness, but there are more and more
exceptions to that rule the deeper you delve into
technology and this might be one of them.
This is client-server/remote/distributed history.
>> And how will the history be assembled if it is only
>> clients that fetch it and then never add to it?
>
> Who said about never adding? ... Of course it is
> sent to the server, by some _other_ piece of code.
Then it is even more confusing to call it "read only"
as both writing and reading is done.
> and there is _no point_ in keeping the history in
> two places
Still, there is no gain removing it unless it does
any harm.
>> And again, what is the purpose of all this?
>
> To write an actual program which does something
> actually useful, not to discuss endlessly about why
> anyone might want to write such a program.
I don't ask in general, I specifically ask why you
want a server to handle the history?
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- One-off history for read-string, Marcin Borkowski, 2015/09/24
- Re: One-off history for read-string, Stefan Monnier, 2015/09/24
- Re: One-off history for read-string, Emanuel Berg, 2015/09/24
- Re: One-off history for read-string, Marcin Borkowski, 2015/09/25
- Re: One-off history for read-string, Emanuel Berg, 2015/09/25
- Re: One-off history for read-string, John Mastro, 2015/09/25
- Re: One-off history for read-string, Emanuel Berg, 2015/09/25
- Re: One-off history for read-string, Marcin Borkowski, 2015/09/26
- Re: One-off history for read-string,
Emanuel Berg <=
- Re: One-off history for read-string, Marcin Borkowski, 2015/09/27
- Re: One-off history for read-string, Emanuel Berg, 2015/09/27
- Re: One-off history for read-string, Stefan Monnier, 2015/09/27
- Re: One-off history for read-string, Marcin Borkowski, 2015/09/26