Re: yes-or-no-p prompt conditionally broken in master?

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
> Date: Fri, 04 Sep 2015 12:32:04 +0200
> 
> 
> On 2015-09-04, at 11:26, Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
> 
> > Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> >
> >> Any objections to removing yes-or-no-p (with a defalias for backward
> >> compatibility, of course) and making y-or-n-p serve both duties,
> >> controlled by some defcustom?
> >
> > That doesn't make sense.  They implement different intented meaning.
> 
> +1.  They serve different purposes, and they are both needed.

This is a misunderstanding: I didn't suggest to remove any
functionality.  You will still be able to do exactly what each of
these functions do, just their implementation will be in a single
function.

> While I understand that someone might want to make yes-or-no-p
> behave like y-or-n-p all the time, someone else (like, say, me)
> might want to use y-or-n-p in places where just a confirmation is a
> nice thing to have, and yes-or-no-p in places where you really want
> to make sure that the user does not accidentally press `y'.

That's a no-brainer, and I never said anything to the contrary.