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: One more string functions change Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2014 23:53:14 +0300 Message-ID: <83ha366pmt.fsf@gnu.org> References: <53AD8D59.5000207@yandex.ru> <53AD9FDB.80705@cs.ucla.edu> <83simq6spc.fsf@gnu.org> <53ADD80D.2070207@cs.ucla.edu> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1403902429 32547 80.91.229.3 (27 Jun 2014 20:53:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2014 20:53:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: dmantipov@yandex.ru, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 27 22:53:42 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 1X0d9R-0006oP-8p for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Jun 2014 22:53:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52519 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X0d9Q-0002NY-Tr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Jun 2014 16:53:40 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58724) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X0d9J-0002KG-BH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Jun 2014 16:53:38 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X0d9E-0001zO-FP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Jun 2014 16:53:33 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout25.012.net.il ([80.179.55.181]:36874) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X0d9E-0001z7-6u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Jun 2014 16:53:28 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout25.012.net.il by mtaout25.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0N7U00400HAKCQ00@mtaout25.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Jun 2014 23:49:27 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout25.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0N7U00OZ5HUF6N60@mtaout25.012.net.il>; Fri, 27 Jun 2014 23:49:27 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <53ADD80D.2070207@cs.ucla.edu> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.181 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:172781 Archived-At: > Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2014 13:46:05 -0700 > From: Paul Eggert > CC: dmantipov@yandex.ru, emacs-devel@gnu.org > > If the change is making it easier to do the wrong thing, perhaps we > should leave things alone, and save our energies for making better > changes. I would agree with you wholeheartedly, but I somehow doubt that this energy will get redirected towards making better changes (although I still hope it will). So I don't want to object to this kind of changes on those grounds, since the contributors might find that unreasonable.