From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#10057: 24.0.91; doc string of `Info-find-file' Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 10:29:59 -0800 Message-ID: References: <8B7B45455BDC4BFBAC6E24B36D21695F@us.oracle.com> <7DCB4AC13F2B4BA19A9BBB34E78086CA@us.oracle.com> <5C41898136234BBFA995CBC4D05B7108@us.oracle.com> <83ty64c515.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1321468287 8139 80.91.229.12 (16 Nov 2011 18:31:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 18:31:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 10057@debbugs.gnu.org To: "'Eli Zaretskii'" Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 16 19:31:23 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RQkGW-0004RC-VL for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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Wed, 16 Nov 2011 18:30:04 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt103.oracle.com (abhmt103.oracle.com [141.146.116.55]) by acsmt357.oracle.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id pAGITw9c021565; Wed, 16 Nov 2011 12:29:58 -0600 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/130.35.178.194) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Wed, 16 Nov 2011 10:29:58 -0800 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 Thread-Index: Acyki0V7W+d6BrQCRUG9oLmZlg6enQAAGhwg X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6157 In-Reply-To: <83ty64c515.fsf@gnu.org> X-Source-IP: ucsinet21.oracle.com [156.151.31.93] X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A090207.4EC4012E.0041,ss=1,re=0.000,fgs=0 X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 13:32:01 -0500 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:53994 Archived-At: > > 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.