From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Wolfgang Jenkner <wjenkner@inode.at>
Cc: kaushal.modi@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org,
monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, bruce.connor.am@gmail.com,
dgutov@yandex.ru
Subject: Re: yes-or-no-p prompt conditionally broken in master?
Date: Fri, 04 Sep 2015 15:36:50 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83si6u8iot.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <854mjaxt65.fsf@iznogoud.viz>
> From: Wolfgang Jenkner <wjenkner@inode.at>
> Cc: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>, kaushal.modi@gmail.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, bruce.connor.am@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 04 Sep 2015 14:29:57 +0200
>
> FWIW, I don't, but I've been aware of this trick for a long time as part
> of the emacs folklore (when I search for yes-or-no-p, DuckDuckGo
> suggests the emacs wiki page[*], which mentions it, right after some
> mirror of the Common Lisp Hyperspec)
>
> So, IMHO, you are right in general, of course, that emacs developers
> can't guarantee that such tricks will always work, but I don't think
> that it would make sense to break user expectations in this particular
> case.
I'm not going to break it just for the joy of breaking it, but if
there's a good reason to change one of the APIs, we shouldn't back off
just because of this trick. Especially if we provide an alternative
method for doing the same (which is what is being discussed now).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-09-04 12:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 70+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-09-03 16:31 yes-or-no-p prompt conditionally broken in master? Kaushal Modi
2015-09-03 16:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-03 17:22 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-09-03 17:28 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-09-03 17:43 ` Tassilo Horn
2015-09-03 17:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-03 17:47 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-09-03 18:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-03 18:18 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-09-03 18:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-03 18:23 ` Drew Adams
2015-09-03 18:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-03 18:43 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-09-03 18:45 ` Kaushal Modi
2015-09-04 9:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-04 9:14 ` David Kastrup
2015-09-04 12:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-04 9:16 ` Bastien
2015-09-04 9:26 ` Andreas Schwab
2015-09-04 10:32 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-09-04 11:03 ` David Kastrup
2015-09-04 11:52 ` Kaushal Modi
2015-09-04 12:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-04 12:39 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-09-05 5:02 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2015-09-04 12:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-04 12:40 ` Andreas Schwab
2015-09-04 12:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-04 13:34 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-09-04 17:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-04 18:14 ` David Kastrup
2015-09-04 18:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-04 18:39 ` David Kastrup
2015-09-04 18:52 ` Kaushal Modi
2015-09-04 18:53 ` Kaushal Modi
2015-09-04 19:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-04 19:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-04 20:00 ` David Kastrup
2015-09-04 20:04 ` David Kastrup
2015-09-05 7:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-05 7:20 ` David Kastrup
2015-09-04 19:56 ` David Kastrup
2015-09-04 18:36 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-09-04 17:31 ` Chad Brown
2015-09-04 17:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-04 12:59 ` Kaushal Modi
2015-09-04 14:42 ` Drew Adams
2015-09-04 13:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-09-04 13:49 ` David Kastrup
2015-09-04 17:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-04 17:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-03 18:27 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-09-03 18:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-03 18:33 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-09-03 18:18 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-09-03 18:25 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-09-03 18:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-03 18:33 ` David Kastrup
2015-09-03 21:47 ` Andy Moreton
2015-09-04 6:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-04 6:48 ` Andreas Schwab
2015-09-04 7:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-04 9:25 ` Andreas Schwab
2015-09-05 4:06 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2015-09-03 19:26 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-09-03 17:47 ` Kaushal Modi
2015-09-04 12:29 ` Wolfgang Jenkner
2015-09-04 12:36 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2015-09-03 22:31 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2015-09-03 23:54 ` Kaushal Modi
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