Re: Should `cancel-timer' use `delete' instead of `delq'?

[Miles Bader]

"Drew Adams" <address@hidden> writes:
> To repeat my question: Is it a good idea to either document the
> "traditional" `define-minor-mode' approach or define a new macro for this,
> or should we just let people discover this on their own?

I think the macro is inappropriate; the problem generally doesn't occur
in typical "define" contexts (for instance your defvar "protection" will
never get executed, because of the way defvar works).

If this is actually a problem in practice, just documenting it seems
good enough.

Is this potential problem really any more widespread than millions of
other very similar bugs though?  This is exactly the same as many other
sorts of resource allocation/deallocation; we don't explicitly warn
people about each of them because we assume than programmers know how to
handle this sort of thing in general.

-Miles

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