From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#10323: 24.0.92; docstring diary-date-forms Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2021 12:11:43 +0200 Message-ID: <87o8cfl540.fsf@gnus.org> References: <87mxapsbhd.fsf@niu.edu> <87a6o87mmq.fsf@gnus.org> <62165.9663.313205.24767@gargle.gargle.HOWL> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="17159"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: 10323@debbugs.gnu.org To: "Roland Winkler" Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 09 12:14:20 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lqvE4-0004HY-5a for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; 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I'd find it more natural if just the first > matching pattern wins.) > > What do others think about this? I tried following the logic of the code here (and read the doc strings a bunch of times), and I'm still confused as to why it's implemented the way it is -- it seems pretty convoluted. But we probably can't change the implementation here (without obsoleting the variables and starting from scratch), so I think we should just attempt to document what it's actually doing, as difficult as even that is. :-/ -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no