From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Alan Mackenzie Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Unbalanced change hooks (part 2) Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2016 16:11:08 +0000 Message-ID: <20160802161108.GC2328@acm.fritz.box> References: <20160731121642.GB2205@acm.fritz.box> <20160802101549.GA2328@acm.fritz.box> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1470154358 21485 195.159.176.226 (2 Aug 2016 16:12:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2016 16:12:38 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) Cc: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=D3scar?= Fuentes , Richard Stallman , Emacs Development To: Richard Copley Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 02 18:12:33 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bUcIy-00057K-HS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Aug 2016 18:12:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57602 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bUcIv-0002Ux-4B for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Aug 2016 12:12:29 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44011) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bUcIL-0002Uc-QL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Aug 2016 12:11:54 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bUcIH-0001R1-DY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Aug 2016 12:11:53 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.muc.de ([193.149.48.3]:31868) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bUcIH-0001Qm-3p for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Aug 2016 12:11:49 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 97418 invoked by uid 3782); 2 Aug 2016 16:11:48 -0000 Original-Received: from acm.muc.de (p548C7CD5.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [84.140.124.213]) by colin.muc.de (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Tue, 02 Aug 2016 18:11:46 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 4225 invoked by uid 1000); 2 Aug 2016 16:11:08 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.1.12 (Macallan) X-Primary-Address: acm@muc.de X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: FreeBSD 9.x X-Received-From: 193.149.48.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:206357 Archived-At: Hello, Richard. On Tue, Aug 02, 2016 at 11:37:09AM +0100, Richard Copley wrote: > On 2 August 2016 at 11:15, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > It's my emotional reaction to a dodgy coding practice. We have two > > functions, one of which assumes far too much about the inner workings of > > the other. This "convolution" (as Richard Copley described it) is > > liable to lead to all sorts of tangles and awkwardnesses and things > > generally being very difficult to maintain. > :) I think that was Eli. Actually, it was Noam. Apologies for my confusion. -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).