Hi Klaus,
If somebody doesn't know how to determine the type of a Lisp variable,
he is not a power user in my estimation. I therefore see no need to
document the data type for the power use. Further, documenting the
types encourages users to believe that writing Lisp and editing a
customization
Andy Piper writes:
Seems reasonable to me :)
Incidentally you need to know this information whether you use setq,
custom-set-variables or jde-set-variables _programmatically_. I think
mandating the use of the (poor) customize gui is awful.
Andy,
The only people who complain
Hi Paul,
At 12:53 PM 8/26/2002 -0400, Paul Kinnucan wrote:
The only people who complain about it are precisely the people who
don't read the doc. I've explained why the JDEE requires use of
customize in the JDEE user's guide. It's not an arbitrary
requirement. The reasons are twofold: it reduces
