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: Unibyte characters, strings, and buffers Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2014 18:16:49 +0300 Message-ID: <837g79cc66.fsf@gnu.org> References: <831txozsqa.fsf@gnu.org> <83ppl7y30l.fsf@gnu.org> <87r45nouvx.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <8361myyac6.fsf@gnu.org> <87a9capqfr.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <5335C336.3080108@dancol.org> <87mwg9nti0.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <83ioqxdzax.fsf@gnu.org> <87ha6hngak.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <83k3bacs02.fsf@gnu.org> <87ppl1n2k2.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1396365434 22292 80.91.229.3 (1 Apr 2014 15:17:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2014 15:17:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: dancol@dancol.org, monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 01 17:17:07 2014 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 1WV0R0-0005Vj-8r for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Apr 2014 17:17:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60974 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WV0Qz-0003iF-S9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Apr 2014 11:17:05 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42922) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WV0Qk-0003Lf-HZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Apr 2014 11:16:55 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WV0Qd-0002lc-0S for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Apr 2014 11:16:50 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout28.012.net.il ([80.179.55.184]:43874) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WV0Qc-0002lG-PI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Apr 2014 11:16:42 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout28.012.net.il by mtaout28.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0N3C00F00Y0EVG00@mtaout28.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Apr 2014 18:16:18 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout28.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0N3C00C90YF5VC50@mtaout28.012.net.il>; Tue, 01 Apr 2014 18:16:18 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <87ppl1n2k2.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.184 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:171246 Archived-At: > From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" > Cc: dancol@dancol.org, > monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA, > emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2014 12:36:45 +0900 > > Hey, I'm perfectly happy to go on that kind of evidence; the projects > I mostly work on don't require assignment and I see no need for it. > But we're talking here about Emacs, which is extremely careful about > these things. It would be madness IMO for Emacs to require legal paperwork from everyone who at some point participated in some design discussion here, which later got implemented, just because "design is expressive" and "email is a medium" that fixes that expressiveness. As a matter of fact, this is not currently required, which I interpret as an agreement with my understanding of the fine line that separates design ideas from actual code.