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bug#48281: buffer_local_value and find_symbol_value duplicate functional
From: |
Spencer Baugh |
Subject: |
bug#48281: buffer_local_value and find_symbol_value duplicate functionality |
Date: |
Fri, 07 May 2021 18:44:33 -0400 |
find_symbol_value is described as:
Find the value of a symbol, returning Qunbound if it's not bound.
buffer_local_value does the same, except that it allows one to specify a
buffer.
Yet they both implement symbol lookup, without sharing code. And given
that the comment above find_symbol_value says "Great care is required
for this.", I'm guessing that one or both of them may have bugs that the
other does not. Especially because buffer_local_value is simpler than
find_symbol_value, despite doing an ostensibly more complicated job...
How about unifying them into a single function? Would a patch doing
that be accepted?
Alternatively, maybe I'm missing some detail about why they're
different?
- bug#48281: buffer_local_value and find_symbol_value duplicate functionality,
Spencer Baugh <=