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From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Ted Zlatanov'" <tzz@lifelogs.com>, <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: rewriting y-or-n-p to use read-char-choice
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 15:48:56 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <604E15D23A7C4D0DAC5244A8EACAF38B@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k4g6io2j.fsf@lifelogs.com>

> > Completely missing from your exposition of implementation 
> > issues is why.  Why rewrite `y-or-n-p'?  What advantages
> > are sought/expected?
> 
> See bug #8050.  The original need was, I believe, to reuse code.

I see.  Thanks (anyway).  Might I suggest that next time you briefly describe
the problem you are trying to solve, in the thread where you invite discussion
of possible solutions?  That might help you as well as others.




  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-10 23:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-10 18:50 rewriting y-or-n-p to use read-char-choice Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-10 19:10 ` Edward O'Connor
2011-03-10 19:46   ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-10 22:35 ` Drew Adams
2011-03-10 22:54   ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-10 23:48     ` Drew Adams [this message]
2011-03-11  2:05 ` Stefan Monnier

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