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: [PATCH] Generalize start-process with keyword args Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2015 05:47:13 +0200 Message-ID: <83k2yfx8zi.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87d24d3uwz.fsf-ueno@gnu.org> <83pp87y6iu.fsf@gnu.org> <83mw3bxz9f.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1426650470 29909 80.91.229.3 (18 Mar 2015 03:47:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2015 03:47:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ueno@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 18 04:47:41 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 1YY4xC-0006fX-UL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 Mar 2015 04:47:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58783 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YY4xC-000294-71 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 Mar 2015 23:47:34 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37818) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YY4x8-00028t-Qf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Mar 2015 23:47:31 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YY4x2-0003j8-Dz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Mar 2015 23:47:30 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout24.012.net.il ([80.179.55.180]:46785) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YY4x2-0003j4-60; Tue, 17 Mar 2015 23:47:24 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout24.012.net.il by mtaout24.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NLE00D001VGOA00@mtaout24.012.net.il>; Wed, 18 Mar 2015 05:39:38 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout24.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NLE0089Y261H850@mtaout24.012.net.il>; Wed, 18 Mar 2015 05:39:38 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.180 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:183980 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Cc: ueno@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2015 17:36:50 -0400 > > > What, you mean it will implement its own encoding and decoding > > machinery? > > No, just that it will treat ":coding nil" in the same way as the absence > of a :coding arg (i.e. fallback on some default mechanism). IMO, it will be terribly confusing to have incompatible treatment of nil in this one API.