From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Luc Teirlinck Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.xemacs.design,gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Rationale for split-string? Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 10:27:47 -0500 (CDT) Sender: xemacs-design-admin@xemacs.org Message-ID: <200304221527.h3MFRl012630@eel.dms.auburn.edu> References: <87brz57at2.fsf@tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <200304171744.h3HHiJCx009215@rum.cs.yale.edu> <87adem27ey.fsf@tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87ist8yv4n.fsf@tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <200304212111.h3LLBLK11879@eel.dms.auburn.edu> <20030421234347.GA12507@gnu.org> <200304220326.h3M3Q1912252@eel.dms.auburn.edu> <200304221256.h3MCuQQ12476@eel.dms.auburn.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1051025348 22040 80.91.224.249 (22 Apr 2003 15:29:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 15:29:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, xemacs-design@xemacs.org Original-X-From: xemacs-design-admin@xemacs.org Tue Apr 22 17:29:04 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from gwyn.tux.org ([199.184.165.135]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 197zhg-0005is-00 for ; Tue, 22 Apr 2003 17:29:04 +0200 Original-Received: from gwyn.tux.org (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by gwyn.tux.org (8.11.6p2/8.9.1) with ESMTP id h3MFT9M17656; Tue, 22 Apr 2003 11:29:09 -0400 Original-Received: (from turnbull@localhost) by gwyn.tux.org (8.11.6p2/8.9.1) id h3MFS9117305 for xemacs-design-mailman@xemacs.org; Tue, 22 Apr 2003 11:28:09 -0400 Original-Received: (from mail@localhost) by gwyn.tux.org (8.11.6p2/8.9.1) id h3MFS0w17236 for turnbull@tux.org; Tue, 22 Apr 2003 11:28:00 -0400 Original-Received: from manatee.dms.auburn.edu (manatee.dms.auburn.edu [131.204.53.104]) by gwyn.tux.org (8.11.6p2/8.9.1) with ESMTP id h3MFRvM17205; Tue, 22 Apr 2003 11:27:57 -0400 Original-Received: from eel.dms.auburn.edu (eel.dms.auburn.edu [131.204.53.108]) by manatee.dms.auburn.edu (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h3MFRkoc027944; Tue, 22 Apr 2003 10:27:46 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (from teirllm@localhost) by eel.dms.auburn.edu (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) id h3MFRl012630; Tue, 22 Apr 2003 10:27:47 -0500 (CDT) X-Authentication-Warning: eel.dms.auburn.edu: teirllm set sender to teirllm@dms.auburn.edu using -f Original-To: james@xemacs.org In-reply-to: (message from Jerry James on 22 Apr 2003 09:56:53 -0500) X-XEmacs-List: design Errors-To: xemacs-design-admin@xemacs.org X-BeenThere: xemacs-design@xemacs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Discussion of design and features for XEmacs. List-Unsubscribe: , Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.xemacs.design:2105 gmane.emacs.devel:13361 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:13361 I interpreted your original message as suggesting that I was a hypocrite (and that other people involved with Emacs were hypocrites) because I was worrying about breaking existing code now, whereas nobody connected with Emacs development worried about breaking existing code four years ago. (The answer to that is that I did not subscribe to Emacs devel four years ago and that I represent my own opinions, not other people's opinions.) I am willing to believe that you did not mean to suggest the above, in which case I overreacted to your message. Sorry. Sincerely, Luc.