From: Dmitry Antipov <dmantipov@yandex.ru>
To: Dmitry <dgutov@yandex.ru>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: trunk r117396: Do not allow out-of-range character position in Fcompare_strings.
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 17:46:14 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <53AAD2A6.5060705@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86wqc5kttw.fsf@yandex.ru>
On 06/25/2014 05:22 PM, Dmitry wrote:
> IIUC, this small discussion ended with "it's too late to fix". Why did
> you make the change, then?
"Too late" for emacs-24, which is in pretest stage.
> And if it's okay to change the semantics, why not change it the other
> way, relaxing `substring' requirements?
Why relaxing? IMO relaxing just means more error-prone code (imagine
an `aset' which silently ignores writing an element beyond array end,
or `aref' which always returns nil in that case).
Anyway, you can defsubst a tiny wrapper to relax if you need.
Dmitry
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2014-06-25 13:22 ` trunk r117396: Do not allow out-of-range character position in Fcompare_strings Dmitry
2014-06-25 13:46 ` Dmitry Antipov [this message]
2014-06-25 15:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-06-25 15:57 ` Dmitry Antipov
2014-06-25 16:19 ` Dmitry Gutov
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