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To: Bill Dubuque <wgd@martigny.ai.mit.edu>
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Subject: Re: Specifiers in custom
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From: Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr>
Date: 17 Apr 1997 00:17:09 +0200
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Bill Dubuque <wgd@martigny.ai.mit.edu> writes:

> I think all the various proposals about 'defcustom' options make
> much more sense if you consider an object-oriented approach to the
> 'symbols' defined by defcustom (i.e. the interface to these objects
> should implement them just like symbols (or instance variables) even
> if the values they reference aren't actually stored in a
> symbol-value slot).

Your thoughs are nice, regarding the theory of how a future version of
custom should behave.  But we probably need these features now, maybe
within the scope of Emacs 19.35 and XEmacs 20.2.

Are you ready to rewrite customize to the effect you advocate?

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Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia
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