From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: simplifying windmove-frame-edges Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2019 16:42:52 +0300 Message-ID: <83ftjhvt43.fsf@gnu.org> References: <6ac9e01d-83f2-cb1a-b09b-a5a8c8cc7b44@gmx.at> <83h83yxmgg.fsf@gnu.org> <83imodvvhl.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="172358"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: rudalics@gmx.at, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Juanma Barranquero Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 25 15:43:25 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1iNzsD-000ihm-5K for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Oct 2019 15:43:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60100 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iNzsB-0004I9-Fo for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Oct 2019 09:43:23 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:36213) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iNzrv-00048K-A2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Oct 2019 09:43:08 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:50521) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iNzru-0006e7-F8; Fri, 25 Oct 2019 09:43:06 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=3806 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1iNzrt-0000pZ-Fb; Fri, 25 Oct 2019 09:43:06 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Juanma Barranquero on Fri, 25 Oct 2019 15:13:45 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:241414 Archived-At: > From: Juanma Barranquero > Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2019 15:13:45 +0200 > Cc: martin rudalics , Emacs developers > > > Are these comments really no longer relevant? > > They are relevant for the obsolete code, but they are misleading because they describe an implementation > that's no longer used. > > I don't think we want to spend time fixing these functions, or any bugs in them, and we don't want to > encourage *more* unbundled packages or user code using these functions. It's better to strip the comment, > put a notice, and let it be until we feel it's safe to just remove it all. So you are saying that nothing in those comments is relevant for the implementation of non-obsolete functions? IOW, no reasonable amount of changes in the comments will ever yield anything useful for the code we now consider the mainstream? If so, then yes, removing those comments is TRT. Thanks.