From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Eli Zaretskii'" <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 10057@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#10057: 24.0.91; doc string of `Info-find-file'
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 10:29:59 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <A662D14728C4429EBB20B783CDB2E851@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83ty64c515.fsf@gnu.org>
> > Not according to Stefan's "general rule": According to
> > that, omission indicates clearly to everyone that that
> > the behavior is unpredictable and unsupported.
>
> That's a misrepresentation of what Stefan said.
No, I don't think so:
>> You apparently want a non-nil, non-t value to implicitly be
>> considered unpredictable and unsupported ("you're on your own"),
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> for the benefit of "future compatibility", and you apparently
>> do not want to tell users that explicitly.
>
> Saying this explicitly everywhere we rely on it would be silly.
> It's a general rule that applies to all software I know.
What part of what he said does _not_ confirm that he claims that omission
implicitly indicates to readers that the behavior is unpredictable and
unsupported?
And again:
> Well, [the doc string] does say that if you use a non-nil
> and non-t value, you're on your own.
The doc string says nothing explicit about non-nil and non-t.
His claim is that it says this implicitly, by omission.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-16 18:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-15 20:30 bug#10057: 24.0.91; doc string of `Info-find-file' Drew Adams
2011-11-15 21:39 ` Juri Linkov
2011-11-15 21:56 ` Drew Adams
2011-11-15 22:17 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-11-15 22:21 ` Drew Adams
2011-11-15 21:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-11-15 22:08 ` Drew Adams
2011-11-16 2:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-11-16 2:29 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-11-16 3:05 ` Drew Adams
2011-11-16 3:24 ` Glenn Morris
2011-11-16 5:23 ` Drew Adams
2011-11-16 4:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-11-16 5:24 ` Drew Adams
2011-11-16 8:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-11-16 14:52 ` Drew Adams
2011-11-16 18:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-11-16 18:29 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2011-11-16 18:43 ` Memnon Anon
2011-11-16 19:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-11-16 17:03 ` Juri Linkov
2011-11-16 18:29 ` Drew Adams
2011-11-16 19:31 ` Juri Linkov
2011-11-16 20:04 ` Drew Adams
2011-11-16 20:28 ` Juri Linkov
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