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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.






  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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