From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Double unquote/unquote-splicing Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2013 06:48:02 +0900 Message-ID: <874n7qldv1.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <87wqko6z8g.fsf@nbtrap.com> <874n7sf3pi.fsf@nbtrap.com> <87habsdlwo.fsf@nbtrap.com> <877gcnlcnz.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87bo1yhnzh.fsf@nbtrap.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1383688100 8782 80.91.229.3 (5 Nov 2013 21:48:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2013 21:48:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Nathan Trapuzzano Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 05 22:48:22 2013 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 1VdoU0-0002AG-Sz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Nov 2013 22:48:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58681 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VdoU0-0002kA-FG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Nov 2013 16:48:20 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39821) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VdoTr-0002j9-7h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Nov 2013 16:48:17 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VdoTl-00069C-CO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Nov 2013 16:48:11 -0500 Original-Received: from mgmt2.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.224]:56331) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VdoTl-000698-1s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Nov 2013 16:48:05 -0500 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by mgmt2.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57C69970A03; Wed, 6 Nov 2013 06:48:02 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 4CCD51A275E; Wed, 6 Nov 2013 06:48:02 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: <87bo1yhnzh.fsf@nbtrap.com> X-Mailer: VM undefined under 21.5 (beta34) "kale" 182d01410b8d XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-unknown-linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 130.158.97.224 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:164989 Archived-At: Nathan Trapuzzano writes: > "Stephen J. Turnbull" writes: > > > "It's pretty, so it must be right" is a fallacy. > > I haven't argued in these terms at all. That is true, and it doesn't matter. It's an easy trap for others to fall into, and it's a particularly dangerous one for Emacs, which is intentionally permissive toward irregular hacks. > I think the only claim that can be legitimately said to be > "tenuous" is (3), given its subjective nature. It seems to me that > the other points are simply true. You've already admitted that they're not. The best you can say is that in your opinion the probability of doing any harm is negligible.