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From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: yamaoka@jpl.org, wl-en@lists.airs.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r102775: Allow format args for y-or-n-p and yes-or-no-p.
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 21:59:14 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d3nsnuv1.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1PdYrt-0002nA-06@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Thu, 13 Jan 2011 20:54:21 -0500")

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

>     Good point.  For compatibility, probably we should fall back on the old
>     behavior if only one argument is supplied.
>
> That will work in practice, but it is kludgy and ugly.  That is why I
> didn't do this.  I regret that I did not initially made y-or-n-p and
> yes-or-no-p use format.

Fair enough; I reverted the change.

> Maybe the thing is to add two new functions which are similar
> but always call format.

Probably not worth it, unless a much more concise set of function names
is offered.  I guess we'll have to live with this unfortunate historical
accident.



  reply	other threads:[~2011-01-20  2:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <E1PbGtF-0005Ln-Jb@internal.in.savannah.gnu.org>
2011-01-13 14:27 ` /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r102775: Allow format args for y-or-n-p and yes-or-no-p Katsumi Yamaoka
2011-01-13 17:39   ` Chong Yidong
2011-01-13 18:38     ` Andreas Schwab
2011-01-13 18:53       ` Chong Yidong
2011-01-13 19:02         ` Andreas Schwab
2011-01-13 19:14           ` /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r102775: Allow format args for y-or-n-pand yes-or-no-p Drew Adams
2011-01-13 19:53           ` /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r102775: Allow format args for y-or-n-p and yes-or-no-p Chong Yidong
2011-01-14  1:54     ` Richard Stallman
2011-01-20  2:59       ` Chong Yidong [this message]
2011-01-20  5:58         ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2011-01-13 20:54   ` Stefan Monnier

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