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[128.53.196.27]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id r11sm28066181pgn.35.2017.06.04.17.33.39 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Sun, 04 Jun 2017 17:33:41 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <8337bfbvs0.fsf@gnu.org> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.3273) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:133274 Archived-At: > 2017/06/05 0:46=E3=80=81Eli Zaretskii =E3=81=AE=E3=83=A1=E3= =83=BC=E3=83=AB: >> If you don't want to see that string change, just say so and I'll = drop it. >=20 > I thought I did, in the very first response to your change suggestion. >=20 > But if that makes you so much unhappy, please go ahead and make the > change. It is not about me being happy or not, but about me learning what's = correct and what is not. If you tell me that it is not correct to worry = about various styles being used seemingly at random, then I learn from = that. If you tell me that it is not necessary, which you did, then I can = argue that I feel better if the few lines I was involved with are tidied = up. >> No, because in the function signature they are defined as optional. >=20 > And yet we usually do say explicitly in doc strings that optional > arguments are optional. Does that mean that you suggest we explicitly declare them optional in = split-string ? Maybe that's something I can do. Jean-Christophe=20=