From: "Lawrence Velázquez" <vq@larryv.me>
To: zsh-workers@zsh.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] declarednull: rename DECLARED to NULL
Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2021 15:24:20 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c4fe44f4-3b44-4ce9-8f8b-3605cf043b63@www.fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAH+w=7a5xzztvJ9hRB-2-LyzyZFx74Pfy5z8cJu01=hOh_AHQw@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Jan 6, 2021, at 12:33 PM, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 6, 2021 at 8:02 AM Daniel Shahaf <d.s@daniel.shahaf.name> wrote:
> > How about, for #1, PM_BEEN_ASSIGNED or PM_INITIALIZED?
>
> The latter was already rejected. Both of these arguably describe the
> opposite of the actual state, that is, PM_HAS_NOT_BEEN_ASSIGNED would
> be more accurate ... but Felipe has essentially argued that after
> "unset foo" the variable still has not been assigned, so why clear a
> bit with that name?
>
> PM_DECLARED_BUT_NEITHER_ASSIGNED_NOR_UNSET is just too verbose, and
> shortening it to just the first word got us into this discussion in
> the first place.
Looks like this petered out without a decision one way or the other?
vq
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-27 19:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-28 22:13 Felipe Contreras
2021-01-03 1:18 ` Bart Schaefer
2021-01-03 2:38 ` Felipe Contreras
2021-01-03 18:26 ` Bart Schaefer
2021-01-04 6:17 ` Daniel Shahaf
2021-01-04 21:57 ` Bart Schaefer
2021-01-06 16:02 ` Daniel Shahaf
2021-01-06 17:33 ` Bart Schaefer
2021-01-07 15:48 ` Daniel Shahaf
2021-01-07 22:29 ` Bart Schaefer
2021-03-27 19:24 ` Lawrence Velázquez [this message]
2021-03-27 20:42 ` Bart Schaefer
2021-03-29 0:44 ` Oliver Kiddle
2021-04-10 18:56 ` Bart Schaefer
2021-04-10 21:58 ` Oliver Kiddle
2021-04-10 22:35 ` Bart Schaefer
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