From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: stephen@xemacs.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Raw string literals in Emacs lisp.
Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2014 21:41:09 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1XETkT-0001c1-7r@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ppggoj3m.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (message from David Kastrup on Mon, 04 Aug 2014 08:38:05 +0200)
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Well, I am not sure about the size of the wart in practice. It has not
apparently caused much of a disturbance for XEmacs. It certainly seems
less relevant in practice than our traditional wart
(info "(emacs) Left Margin Paren")
with regard to reliable detection of strings out of context.
That problem is in a different feature (finding the start of a
function), and we recommend a preventive measure to avoid it. So it
is not a real problem. In Elisp, it is a solved problem.
But even if it were a real problem, this argument is invalid in form.
The existence of one problem we can't fix does not make it good
to create another.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-08-05 1:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-07-25 19:47 Raw string literals in Emacs lisp Matthew Plant
2014-07-25 19:56 ` Tassilo Horn
2014-07-25 20:06 ` Matthew Plant
2014-07-25 20:15 ` Tassilo Horn
2014-07-25 20:24 ` Matthew Plant
2014-07-25 20:33 ` Tom Tromey
2014-07-25 21:40 ` Matthew Plant
2014-07-26 1:19 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-07-26 5:28 ` Matthew Plant
2014-07-26 5:45 ` chad
2014-07-26 19:39 ` Matthew Plant
2014-07-27 12:27 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-07-27 13:03 ` David Kastrup
2014-07-27 20:58 ` David Caldwell
2014-07-27 23:17 ` Matthew Plant
2014-07-28 18:27 ` Richard Stallman
2014-07-28 19:32 ` Matthew Plant
2014-07-29 19:15 ` Richard Stallman
2014-07-30 0:26 ` Matthew Plant
2014-07-30 4:28 ` Richard Stallman
2014-07-30 18:54 ` Matthew Plant
2014-07-28 2:16 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-07-28 7:43 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-07-30 20:28 ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-07-30 20:41 ` David Caldwell
2014-07-30 20:54 ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-07-30 21:01 ` Matthew Plant
2014-07-30 21:16 ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-07-30 21:19 ` Matthew Plant
2014-07-31 10:13 ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-08-02 8:47 ` Alan Mackenzie
2014-08-02 9:14 ` David Kastrup
2014-08-02 10:23 ` Alan Mackenzie
2014-08-02 15:51 ` Richard Stallman
2014-08-03 6:50 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-08-03 7:29 ` David Kastrup
2014-08-03 13:12 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-08-03 13:27 ` David Kastrup
2014-08-03 15:01 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-08-04 1:55 ` Richard Stallman
2014-08-04 6:38 ` David Kastrup
2014-08-05 1:41 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2014-08-05 6:15 ` David Kastrup
2014-08-03 13:40 ` David Kastrup
2014-08-03 15:06 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-08-04 1:55 ` Richard Stallman
2014-08-02 9:17 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-07-28 1:29 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-07-26 21:37 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2014-07-29 6:32 ` William Xu
2014-07-29 7:40 ` Andreas Schwab
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