From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: lexical-binding is turned on in more use cases
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2020 20:44:26 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200310204426.GE5046@ACM> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvmu8ox8m6.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
Hello, Stefan.
On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 16:26:38 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> >> > You haven't answered the question. Why did you not initiate a discussion
> >> > on emacs-devel before committing this patch? emacs-devel is where
> >> > proposals that might or will break things get discussed; not a thread on
> >> > bug-gnu-emacs, where most affected people won't see it.
> >> It doesn't break any*thing*, AFAICT:
> > For crying out loud! My very first post in this thread documented a
> > breakage which actually happened. Please read it.
> Your first post showed that it changed the behavior you got when you use
> `M-:` but it did not break any existing code.
IT BROKE SOMETHING. In particular, it broke my ability to test
something. Please stop your sophistry.
> Usually we qualify this as "change" and not as "breakage".
You might, personally. The rest of us call it breakage when something
which used to work no longer works.
> IOW it's maybe incompatible with your fingers (or your brain/memory) but
> not with existing code.
And you still, for the fourth time of asking, haven't answered the
question of why you failed to discuss this change on emacs-devel. Were
you trying to prevent people like me expressing a view about it?
> Stefan
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
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Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-03-07 11:29 lexical-binding is turned on in more use cases Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-08 16:35 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-03-08 17:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-08 17:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-03-08 17:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-08 18:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-03-08 18:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-08 19:30 ` Alan Mackenzie
2020-03-08 19:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-08 19:56 ` Alan Mackenzie
2020-03-08 20:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-08 20:15 ` Alan Mackenzie
2020-03-11 2:59 ` Richard Stallman
2020-03-11 12:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-03-08 23:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-03-08 23:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-03-09 20:10 ` John Wiegley
2020-03-09 21:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-03-09 21:27 ` Drew Adams
2020-03-09 21:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-03-09 22:30 ` John Wiegley
2020-03-10 19:13 ` Alan Mackenzie
2020-03-10 19:49 ` Andrea Corallo
2020-03-10 20:16 ` Alan Mackenzie
2020-03-10 20:54 ` Andrea Corallo
2020-04-07 23:28 ` Bruno Félix Rezende Ribeiro
2020-03-10 20:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-03-10 21:02 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-03-10 21:02 ` Alan Mackenzie
2020-03-10 21:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-03-11 3:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-10 21:14 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-03-10 21:53 ` Alan Mackenzie
2020-03-10 23:41 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-03-11 1:36 ` Noam Postavsky
2020-03-11 2:02 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-03-13 0:46 ` Noam Postavsky
2020-03-11 3:06 ` Richard Stallman
2020-03-11 12:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-03-13 2:32 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-03-11 2:11 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-03-11 22:39 ` John Wiegley
2020-03-09 20:22 ` Alan Mackenzie
2020-03-09 22:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-03-10 18:41 ` Alan Mackenzie
2020-03-10 19:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-03-10 19:41 ` Alan Mackenzie
2020-03-10 20:26 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-03-10 20:44 ` Alan Mackenzie [this message]
2020-03-10 21:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-03-11 3:06 ` Richard Stallman
2020-03-08 19:39 ` Stefan Monnier
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