From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Honesty with parse-partial-sexp Date: Sat, 09 Dec 2006 21:56:18 +0900 Message-ID: <874ps58byl.fsf@catnip.gol.com> References: <20061207185738.GA1607@muc.de> <457A8620.9090602@gmx.at> Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: dough.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1165669015 19385 80.91.229.10 (9 Dec 2006 12:56:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2006 12:56:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Alan Mackenzie , rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 09 13:56:53 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by dough.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Gt1l6-0005HV-TG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 09 Dec 2006 13:56:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gt1l6-0004cr-Dm for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 09 Dec 2006 07:56:52 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Gt1ku-0004bY-Pz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Dec 2006 07:56:40 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Gt1kt-0004aJ-3Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Dec 2006 07:56:40 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gt1ks-0004aF-VC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Dec 2006 07:56:39 -0500 Original-Received: from [203.216.5.72] (helo=smtp02.dentaku.gol.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1Gt1kn-0002Bx-Bn; Sat, 09 Dec 2006 07:56:33 -0500 Original-Received: from 203-216-98-080.dsl.gol.ne.jp ([203.216.98.80] helo=catnip.gol.com) by smtp02.dentaku.gol.com with esmtpa (Dentaku) id 1Gt1kb-0008HD-Pn; Sat, 09 Dec 2006 21:56:21 +0900 Original-Received: by catnip.gol.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id D49FB2F40; Sat, 9 Dec 2006 21:56:19 +0900 (JST) Original-To: martin rudalics System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu In-Reply-To: <457A8620.9090602@gmx.at> (martin rudalics's message of "Sat\, 09 Dec 2006 10\:47\:12 +0100") Original-Lines: 13 X-Abuse-Complaints: abuse@gol.com X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:63504 Archived-At: martin rudalics writes: > Finally, if you really want to document the 9th return value you should > talk about all its elements. Wouldn't someone's earlier suggestion of providing an accessor macro to extract 9th value be a tad more maintainable and make for more readable code? -Miles -- Come now, if we were really planning to harm you, would we be waiting here, beside the path, in the very darkest part of the forest?