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: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2015 10:41:21 +0200 Message-ID: <83h9w05osu.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83bnxuzyl4.fsf@gnu.org> <87vbkovhh7.fsf@engster.org> <87387rvobr.fsf@engster.org> <83ppat84hk.fsf@gnu.org> <20150106143933.0090bc83@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> <83r3v77ij6.fsf@gnu.org> <20150106154539.3d0752c4@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> <87wq4ype3z.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <20150108083211.5a85a077@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> <877fwxpb63.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83r3v55me9.fsf@gnu.org> <87wq4xqnlr.fsf@wanadoo.es> <83ppap5jp7.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1420793297 3302 80.91.229.3 (9 Jan 2015 08:48:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2015 08:48:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ofv@wanadoo.es, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 09 09:48:11 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 1Y9V8F-0001z1-B8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 09 Jan 2015 09:41:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49518 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y9V8E-0000M8-MC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 09 Jan 2015 03:41:22 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55233) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y9V81-0000M3-LZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Jan 2015 03:41:10 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y9V7y-0005yI-7s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Jan 2015 03:41:09 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:41892) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y9V7x-0005yC-Vq; Fri, 09 Jan 2015 03:41:06 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NHW00I00IKIEB00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Fri, 09 Jan 2015 10:41:04 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NHW00IGRISGAB50@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Fri, 09 Jan 2015 10:41:04 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.166 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:181093 Archived-At: > Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2015 19:02:13 -0500 > From: Richard Stallman > CC: ofv@wanadoo.es, emacs-devel@gnu.org > > > E.g., if it turns out that we > > need 99% of what is already in the AST, the argument for using it will > > be much more substantiated. > > For me, the concern is rather, > what IS in the AST that we DON'T need. That concern will be addressed by the same procedure I proposed. You can look at that 1% (or 5% or 10% or whatever) and decide then whether it's worth to avoid giving it up. But to make that decision you need to know what is and what isn't needed, there's no way around that for an intelligent decision.