From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: yes-or-no-p prompt conditionally broken in master? Date: Fri, 04 Sep 2015 10:00:42 +0300 Message-ID: <8337yuacth.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83k2s7a247.fsf@gnu.org> <55E88336.5060703@yandex.ru> <83h9nb9z5l.fsf@gnu.org> <55E8879B.9050107@yandex.ru> <87lhcnqsc6.fsf@mbork.pl> <55E8908F.5000201@yandex.ru> <838u8n9x2c.fsf@gnu.org> <87bndjwdxj.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83613qae44.fsf@gnu.org> <87zj12of2q.fsf@igel.home> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1441350070 4494 80.91.229.3 (4 Sep 2015 07:01:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2015 07:01:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: dak@gnu.org, kaushal.modi@gmail.com, bruce.connor.am@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, dgutov@yandex.ru To: Andreas Schwab Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 04 09:00:55 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZXkzW-0003gx-OA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Sep 2015 09:00:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56397 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZXkzX-0006jJ-3C for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Sep 2015 03:00:55 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47900) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZXkzQ-0006iM-Jx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Sep 2015 03:00:49 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZXkzP-0007eP-Mx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Sep 2015 03:00:48 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:57658) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZXkzI-0007bs-U1; Fri, 04 Sep 2015 03:00:41 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NU5009004RUF500@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Fri, 04 Sep 2015 10:00:38 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.94.185.246]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NU5009X24T23Z70@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Fri, 04 Sep 2015 10:00:38 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <87zj12of2q.fsf@igel.home> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.172 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:189571 Archived-At: > From: Andreas Schwab > Date: Fri, 04 Sep 2015 08:48:13 +0200 > Cc: David Kastrup , kaushal.modi@gmail.com, > bruce.connor.am@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, > monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, dgutov@yandex.ru > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > > I'm not telling them that. I'm suggesting to tell them that Emacs > > maintenance is not going to promise such tricks, bsed on accidental > > identity of 2 separate APIs, will always work. They should expect it > > to break without notice. > > You are barking up the wrong tree. You've elided the tree I was barking up. > The discussed issue has nothing to > do with yes-or-no-p or y-or-n-p or the alising thereof There was more than one "discussed issue" here. At least one of them has everything to do with aliasing of these 2. > (and I expect this aliasing to always work, because the identity of > the APIs is not accidental). It might indeed always work, but you shouldn't expect that.