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From: "João Távora" <joaotavora@gmail.com>
To: 28390@debbugs.gnu.org, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: bug#28390: Fwd: bug#28390: 26.0.50; overlays-at actually sorts by increating priority
Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2017 20:30:46 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALDnm5083TSfQLODfaaTD5n2enKUBnCV_FF06dwrYHa3jO-gmw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALDnm5103cjV6TNKiGiaVEcJRLMfnM+wCuW3LrySh8dEur7uwg@mail.gmail.com>

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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: João Távora <joaotavora@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Sep 8, 2017 at 7:48 PM
Subject: Re: bug#28390: 26.0.50; overlays-at actually sorts by increating
priority
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>

On Fri, Sep 8, 2017 at 10:47 AM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> >
> > Really? Won't that ripple very paintuflly across the elisp ecosphere?
>
> I don't think so.  I believe this optional argument is used very
> rarely.
>
> > I do agree that it should sort the other way, though. But it's too late
> > for that, bugs will be features :-).
>
> I'm not sure it's too late.

You might be right. Even I overestimated how much I use it in my libs. I
don't.

And the few first pages of a github code search for overlays-at don't
disprove
you. But they don't prove anything either.

Anyway, your call. I wouldn't do it, what's to gain besides consistency?

-- 
João Távora

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-09-08 19:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-07 22:21 bug#28390: 26.0.50; overlays-at actually sorts by increating priority João Távora
2017-09-08  8:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-08  8:57   ` João Távora
2017-09-08  9:47     ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]       ` <CALDnm5103cjV6TNKiGiaVEcJRLMfnM+wCuW3LrySh8dEur7uwg@mail.gmail.com>
2017-09-08 19:30         ` João Távora [this message]
2017-09-10 13:53   ` Stefan Monnier
2017-09-16 10:04     ` Eli Zaretskii

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