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Article #189033policy: hooks vs. advise
From: Robert Potter
Date: Tue, 07 May 1991 22:53
Date: Tue, 07 May 1991 22:53
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I don't know if this is the right group for discussing this, but I was wondering about a policy/style question: Should the use of hook functions be abandoned in favor of the "advise" package? Seems to me that hook functions are ugly. They can only be used if the author of the function you want to modify was smart enough to provide the hook (and to provide it in the right place). Also, hook functions don't get access to the arguments/result of the hooked function. What do you think? -Robert Robert Potter rpotter@grip.cis.upenn.edu GRASP laboratory, Univ. of Pennsylvania
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103b8b,fa1c6ff5fcb7013e,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103b8b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1991-05-08 13:46:14 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!caen!uwm.edu!linac!midway!msuinfo!netnews.upenn.edu!grip.cis.upenn.edu!rpotter From: rpotter@grip.cis.upenn.edu (Robert Potter) Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Subject: policy: hooks vs. advise Message-ID: <42774@netnews.upenn.edu> Date: 7 May 91 22:53:18 GMT Sender: news@netnews.upenn.edu Reply-To: rpotter@grip.cis.upenn.edu (Robert Potter) Distribution: gnu Organization: University of Pennsylvania Lines: 17 Nntp-Posting-Host: grip.cis.upenn.edu