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RE: Eliminating a couple of independent face definitions
From: |
Stephen J. Turnbull |
Subject: |
RE: Eliminating a couple of independent face definitions |
Date: |
Sun, 06 Feb 2011 16:11:21 +0900 |
I'm glad we agree about avoiding redundant defintion of semantically
similar faces.
Drew Adams writes:
> How did this discussion start? Yidong seemed to be saying
> (possible misinterpretation, admittedly) that it would be good
> to get rid of duplicate face definitions, by which he
> apparently meant faces that have different names but the same
> attribute values.
That seems unlikely to me; Emacs developers are generally good about
focusing on underlying semantics rather than surface similarities. In
this case, if that were his intention he'd most likely have suggested
a naming convention that expresses face structure. You might have
been well-advised to ask him if that is what he meant.
> I have nothing against the examples of inheritance that you
> argued for. They are they same kinds of inheritance that I
> argued for.
You did? I'm sorry, I missed it. The question I responded to didn't
make that distinction at all; it simply asked what is the rationale
for inheritance.
And others (cf. John Yates) do not seem to agree that semantic
redundancy is an issue of concern. In a long thread it's easy to
become confused about who advocated what, and almost all the arguments
(including conflicting ones) become associated with the most verbose
posters. If I misrepresented your position, I'm sorry.
- RE: Eliminating a couple of independent face definitions, (continued)
- Re: Eliminating a couple of independent face definitions, Tim Cross, 2011/02/06
- RE: Eliminating a couple of independent face definitions, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2011/02/03
- Re: Eliminating a couple of independent face definitions, John Yates, 2011/02/03
- Re: Eliminating a couple of independent face definitions, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2011/02/04
- Re: Eliminating a couple of independent face definitions, Jambunathan K, 2011/02/03
- RE: Eliminating a couple of independent face definitions, Drew Adams, 2011/02/05
- RE: Eliminating a couple of independent face definitions,
Stephen J. Turnbull <=
- Re: Eliminating a couple of independent face definitions, Julien Danjou, 2011/02/04
- color-complement for defface (was: Eliminating a couple of independent face definitions), Ted Zlatanov, 2011/02/04
- Re: color-complement for defface, Ted Zlatanov, 2011/02/14
- Re: color-complement for defface, Julien Danjou, 2011/02/21
- Re: Eliminating a couple of independent face definitions, Tim Cross, 2011/02/02
- Re: Eliminating a couple of independent face definitions, Dan Nicolaescu, 2011/02/03
Re: Eliminating a couple of independent face definitions, Chong Yidong, 2011/02/02
Re: Eliminating a couple of independent face definitions, Julien Danjou, 2011/02/02
Re: Eliminating a couple of independent face definitions, Štěpán Němec, 2011/02/02