Re: Fwd: Flymake and the 'face' property

[João Távora]

On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 6:54 PM Daniel Colascione <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Are you saying that no facilities in Emacs should reserve global
> > symbols for their own implementation details?  If so I agree, it is bad
> > design.
>
> Yeah. With respect to plists, it's okay to attach public symbols to
> private plists, and it's okay to put private symbols on public plists,
> but putting public symbols on public plists is creating a bug machine.

Hmmm, attach == put, right?

I do think that putting public symbols on public plists *with
package-specific semantics* (public or not) is bad.  That's
the only nono I see.

BTW, CL packages solve this neatly blablabla (we've been through
that, I think).




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João Távora