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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: mattiase@acm.org, larsi@gnus.org, stefan@marxist.se,
	monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, 47677@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#47677: [PATCH] condition-case success continuation
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2021 10:35:07 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83zgxmlsus.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1laWd5-0006ux-KZ@fencepost.gnu.org> (message from Richard Stallman on Sun, 25 Apr 2021 00:44:23 -0400)

> From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
> Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2021 00:44:23 -0400
> Cc: larsi@gnus.org, stefan@marxist.se, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca,
>  47677@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> Hold your horses!  That is not the way to look at a adding complexity
> to a basic Lisp construct.
> 
> Every additional feature added to a fundamental construct increases
> the complexity of the Lisp language.  That always has various kinds of
> cost whether it is used or not.  Since this added feature would rarely
> be of use, it would have cost and no benefit.

FTR: I agree with you.  However, sadly this seems to be a minority
opinion in the current Emacs development: features are added to Emacs
Lisp left, right and center without any serious consideration of the
of the costs and benefits balance.  The pressure to add features to
Emacs Lisp is enormous.  It sometimes seems to me that some people
regard developing and extending Emacs Lisp to be the most important
aspects of the Emacs development.





  reply	other threads:[~2021-04-25  7:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-09 20:26 bug#47677: [PATCH] condition-case success continuation Mattias Engdegård
2021-04-10 23:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-04-11 11:13   ` Mattias Engdegård
2021-04-12  8:49     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-04-12 15:10       ` Stefan Monnier
2021-04-12 19:20         ` Mattias Engdegård
2021-04-13  7:38           ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-04-13  8:52             ` Mattias Engdegård
2021-04-14  9:29               ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-04-15 13:54                 ` Mattias Engdegård
2021-04-16  5:13                   ` Richard Stallman
2021-04-16  5:13                   ` Richard Stallman
2021-04-21 14:13                   ` Stefan Kangas
2021-04-22 13:58                     ` Mattias Engdegård
2021-04-23  4:18                       ` Richard Stallman
2021-04-24 17:02                         ` Mattias Engdegård
2021-04-25  4:44                           ` Richard Stallman
2021-04-25  7:35                             ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2021-04-25 18:21                               ` bug#47677: [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-04-25 18:24                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-04-26  4:40                               ` Richard Stallman
2021-04-26 12:44                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-04-27  3:46                                   ` Richard Stallman
2021-04-26 15:12                           ` Filipp Gunbin
2021-04-27 15:31                             ` Mattias Engdegård
2021-04-27 19:00                               ` Gregory Heytings
2021-04-29 12:45                               ` Filipp Gunbin
2021-04-25 16:45                       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-04-26 11:53                         ` Mattias Engdegård
2021-04-27  3:46                           ` Richard Stallman
2021-04-26 21:57 ` Gregory Heytings

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