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Re: `interactive-form` symbol property
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: `interactive-form` symbol property |
Date: |
Mon, 25 Jun 2018 18:19:48 +0300 |
> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
> Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2018 08:32:45 -0400
>
> > Any reason you dislike the interactive-form property so much that you
> > are willing to promote anything else instead? ;-)
>
> The main reason is NIH, of course.
Of course ;-)
> But more generally when we have a mechanism (advice) that provides
> a superset of the other (interactive-form), I think it's always
> worthwhile to try and see if we really need to keep both.
Supersets frequently impose overhead, because they try to solve a more
general problem. Don't we have some overhead of this kind in this
case?
Re: [Emacs-diffs] emacs-26 9a53b6d: Say how to override a primitive interactive spec, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/06/24