From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: rewriting y-or-n-p to use read-char-choice Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 16:54:28 -0600 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <87k4g6io2j.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <8739mulshy.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1299797705 21024 80.91.229.12 (10 Mar 2011 22:55:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 22:55:05 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 10 23:54:57 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Pxokv-0008QW-Am for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Mar 2011 23:54:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58861 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pxoku-0000Sr-Vo for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Mar 2011 17:54:53 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=50367 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pxokq-0000Sl-8g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Mar 2011 17:54:48 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pxokp-0003ql-5t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Mar 2011 17:54:48 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:34147) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pxoko-0003qe-Tn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Mar 2011 17:54:47 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Pxoki-0008Lu-Ho for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Mar 2011 23:54:40 +0100 Original-Received: from 38.98.147.130 ([38.98.147.130]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 10 Mar 2011 23:54:40 +0100 Original-Received: from tzz by 38.98.147.130 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 10 Mar 2011 23:54:40 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 11 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 38.98.147.130 X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6; d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" User-Agent: Gnus/5.110014 (No Gnus v0.14) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:0og2GL5YXHAcoqyiKJ/VuS3b8+s= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 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:137067 Archived-At: On Thu, 10 Mar 2011 14:35:49 -0800 "Drew Adams" wrote: >> Stefan Monnier asked me to look at rewriting `y-or-n-p' to use >> `read-char-choice'. DA> Completely missing from your exposition of implementation issues is why. Why DA> rewrite `y-or-n-p'? What advantages are sought/expected? See bug #8050. The original need was, I believe, to reuse code. Ted