From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: How to re-orgranize ChangeLog.unicode for merging Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2007 17:47:04 -0500 Message-ID: References: <47305F6E.2030204@gnu.org> <4731D43F.3060007@gnu.org> <200711081556.lA8Fulm5016419@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> <200711090747.lA97loNF007692@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> <200711091509.lA9F9cj0017064@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1195426682 10627 80.91.229.12 (18 Nov 2007 22:58:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2007 22:58:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Adrian.B.Robert@gmail.com, eliz@gnu.org, dann@ics.uci.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Kenichi Handa Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 18 23:58:06 2007 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 4.50) id 1Itt5Z-0006j9-5l for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 18 Nov 2007 23:58:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Itt5L-0008FU-Li for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 18 Nov 2007 17:57:51 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Itsuw-0001jq-8O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Nov 2007 17:47:06 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Itsuv-0001iE-9n for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Nov 2007 17:47:05 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Itsuv-0001hi-5A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Nov 2007 17:47:05 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Itsuu-0002oO-LW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Nov 2007 17:47:04 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Itsuu-0003KX-5K; Sun, 18 Nov 2007 17:47:04 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Kenichi Handa on Mon, 12 Nov 2007 14:17:13 +0900) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:83587 Archived-At: Even for a new funciton, I want to know why some piece of code is in the current shape. I many times encountered such a case that I don't remember why I wrote some code as the current way. In such a case, I read changelogs and get a hint. The best place for that information is in a comment in the code. If you are about to simplify away a change log item, and you think it might be relevant for this, or that the reason for the correctness of the code is not obvious from the code, please put a comment there!