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: yes-or-no-p prompt conditionally broken in master? Date: Sat, 05 Sep 2015 13:06:44 +0900 Message-ID: <87r3md33xn.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <83k2s7a247.fsf@gnu.org> <55E88336.5060703@yandex.ru> <83h9nb9z5l.fsf@gnu.org> <55E8879B.9050107@yandex.ru> <87lhcnqsc6.fsf@mbork.pl> <55E8908F.5000201@yandex.ru> <838u8n9x2c.fsf@gnu.org> <87bndjwdxj.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83613qae44.fsf@gnu.org> <87zj12of2q.fsf@igel.home> <8337yuacth.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1441426039 6151 80.91.229.3 (5 Sep 2015 04:07:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2015 04:07:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Andreas Schwab , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 05 06:07:09 2015 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 1ZY4kv-0005ps-8F for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Sep 2015 06:07:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37335 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZY4ku-0005Nt-Vt for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Sep 2015 00:07:08 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42763) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZY4kh-0005NY-Ra for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Sep 2015 00:06:56 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZY4kg-0003aQ-WE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Sep 2015 00:06:55 -0400 Original-Received: from shako.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.161]:43462) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZY4kc-0003N7-39; Sat, 05 Sep 2015 00:06:50 -0400 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by shako.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0C11A1C3979; Sat, 5 Sep 2015 13:06:45 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id D863B11EF83; Sat, 5 Sep 2015 13:06:44 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: <8337yuacth.fsf@gnu.org> X-Mailer: VM undefined under 21.5 (beta34) "kale" ffb5abc8dc4e XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-unknown-linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 130.158.97.161 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:189624 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: > > (and I expect this aliasing to always work, because the identity of > > the APIs is not accidental). > > It might indeed always work, but you shouldn't expect that. >From long experience with Emacs, I have to agree that I can't expect that -- Emacs sometimes lacks respect for orthogonality of APIs (and UIs, for that matter). I also agree with Andreas -- I *should* be *able* to expect that, and it's a good thing for developers to anticipate and cater to such expectations.