From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Simple lisp question
Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2010 18:04:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3pqswe5po.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2aak0z8rw.fsf@verilab.com>
Tommy Kelly <tommy.kelly@verilab.com> writes:
> In other words, why is the setting to nil of nimap-incoming-split-list
> and news-articles done differently? Just a coding quirk, or a deep and
> mysterious reason?
To the compiler, it's the same, but some people prefer to bind stuff
explicitly to nil, if nil is what the variable is supposed to be, as
opposed to implicitly binding it to nil to signal that it's going to get
its real value further ahead.
So it's a style issue.
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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2010-12-20 16:52 Tommy Kelly
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