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From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Problems with xml-parse-string
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2010 15:56:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fwwyvsei.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 8339syrlto.fsf@gnu.org

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
>> Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2010 15:11:40 +0200
>> 
>> Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> writes:
>> 
>> > You are overselling your case.
>> 
>> I give up.
>
> That's a pity.
>
> Chong, I'd suggest trusting Lars's instincts and experience a bit
> more.  OTOH, if you indeed want to see valid technical arguments for
> his suggestion, you should request the same from the opposite views.
> We should either judge intuition against intuition or specific
> arguments vs specific arguments.  I saw no practical arguments to back
> up the other view, only academic ones.  That's unfair, IMO.

The basic argument was that existing code might be based on that form.
That is not entirely academical.  However, that existing code is not
likely to run unmodified in Emacs Lisp, anyway.

-- 
David Kastrup




  reply	other threads:[~2010-09-25 13:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 100+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-14 18:11 Problems with xml-parse-string Leo
2010-09-14 18:24 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-14 21:18   ` Stefan Monnier
2010-09-15  8:06     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-15  8:51       ` Stefan Monnier
2010-09-15  9:21         ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-15  9:54           ` Leo
2010-09-15 10:16             ` Julien Danjou
2010-09-15 15:58               ` Chad Brown
2010-09-21 23:00           ` Chong Yidong
2010-09-21 23:24             ` Leo
2010-09-22  2:26               ` Chong Yidong
2010-09-22  3:15                 ` Chong Yidong
2010-09-22  7:14                   ` Stefan Monnier
2010-09-22 10:35                   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-22 10:58                     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-22 11:00                     ` Leo
2010-09-22 11:09                       ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-22 11:41                         ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-22 11:55                           ` Wojciech Meyer
2010-09-22 12:09                             ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-22 12:17                               ` Wojciech Meyer
2010-09-22 12:18                                 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-22 12:20                                   ` Wojciech Meyer
2010-09-22 12:26                                     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-22 12:34                                       ` Wojciech Meyer
2010-09-22 12:46                                         ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-22 12:45                         ` Leo
2010-09-22 13:14                           ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-22 14:07                             ` Chong Yidong
2010-09-22 15:04                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-22 23:59                               ` Stefan Monnier
2010-09-23  5:53                                 ` Leo
2010-09-23 15:43                                   ` Chong Yidong
2010-09-23 16:53                                     ` Leo
2010-09-23 21:58                                     ` Wojciech Meyer
2010-09-23 22:21                                     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-24  0:04                                       ` Stefan Monnier
2010-09-24  0:06                                         ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-24  1:09                                           ` Chong Yidong
2010-09-24  2:46                                             ` David De La Harpe Golden
2010-09-24  5:38                                               ` David Kastrup
2010-09-24  8:02                                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-24 10:47                                                 ` Wojciech Meyer
2010-09-24 10:44                                             ` Wojciech Meyer
2010-09-24 10:49                                             ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-24 15:25                                               ` Chong Yidong
2010-09-24 15:53                                                 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-24 16:26                                                   ` Chong Yidong
2010-09-24 16:46                                                     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-24 17:34                                                       ` Wojciech Meyer
2010-09-24 18:09                                                         ` Frank Schmitt
2010-09-24 18:21                                                           ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-09-24 18:31                                                           ` Wojciech Meyer
2010-09-24 18:47                                                       ` Chong Yidong
2010-09-24 18:53                                                         ` Chong Yidong
2010-09-24 18:58                                                           ` Wojciech Meyer
2010-09-24 19:06                                                         ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-24 19:25                                                           ` Chong Yidong
2010-09-24 19:34                                                             ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-24 21:57                                                               ` Chong Yidong
2010-09-25 13:11                                                                 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-25 13:31                                                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-25 13:56                                                                     ` David Kastrup [this message]
2010-09-25 13:59                                                                     ` Wojciech Meyer
2010-09-25 16:13                                                                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-25 16:46                                                                         ` Wojciech Meyer
2010-09-25 22:29                                                                           ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-09-25 15:00                                                                     ` Chong Yidong
2010-09-24 22:01                                                             ` Stefan Monnier
2010-09-24 22:17                                                               ` Chong Yidong
2010-09-25  0:25                                                                 ` Wojciech Meyer
2010-09-25 14:42                                                       ` Andy Wingo
2010-09-25 15:12                                                         ` Leo
2010-09-25 15:21                                                         ` Leo
2010-09-25 15:42                                                           ` Wojciech Meyer
2010-09-25 20:02                                                             ` Stefan Monnier
2010-09-25 20:32                                                               ` Leo
2010-09-25 23:08                                                               ` Leo
2010-09-26 21:55                                                                 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-09-26 23:34                                                                   ` Leo
2010-09-26  3:48                                                               ` pcase.el (was: Problems with xml-parse-string) Ted Zlatanov
2010-09-26 22:06                                                                 ` pcase.el Stefan Monnier
2010-09-27 16:59                                                                   ` pcase.el Leo
2010-09-27 22:51                                                                     ` pcase.el Stefan Monnier
2010-09-28 18:17                                                                   ` pcase.el Ted Zlatanov
2010-09-24 23:43                                         ` Problems with xml-parse-string Andrew W. Nosenko
2010-09-23  2:16                               ` Kevin Rodgers
2010-09-22 14:05                     ` Chong Yidong
2010-09-22 14:32                       ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-22 15:46                         ` Chong Yidong
2010-09-22 16:12                           ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-22 16:51                           ` Wojciech Meyer
2010-09-22 18:06                             ` Chong Yidong
2010-09-22 18:14                               ` Edward O'Connor
2010-09-22 18:34                                 ` Leo
2010-09-22 18:41                                   ` Chong Yidong
2010-09-22 19:57                                     ` Wojciech Meyer
2010-09-22 18:06                             ` Andy Wingo
2010-09-22 23:48             ` Stefan Monnier

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