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: emacs-25 2460cfa: * doc/lispref/lists.texi (Association Lists): Document 'alist-get'. Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2016 15:07:46 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20160116143238.27391.97533@vcs.savannah.gnu.org> <8737ttx5dm.fsf@web.de> <83oachbgz0.fsf@gnu.org> <87vb6pih39.fsf@web.de> <83h9i9besq.fsf@gnu.org> <87mvs1ieql.fsf@web.de> <83bn8hbcpp.fsf@gnu.org> <87a8o1ics6.fsf@web.de> <838u3lbbe8.fsf@gnu.org> <87vb6osb0o.fsf@web.de> <87h9i86tke.fsf@web.de> <878u3in7ye.fsf@web.de> <83fuxq95jt.fsf@gnu.org> <83d1su94bn.fsf@gnu.org> <83twm66qjp.fsf@gnu.org> <87zivxesbp.fsf@web.de> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1453493285 27526 80.91.229.3 (22 Jan 2016 20:08:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2016 20:08:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Michael Heerdegen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 22 21:07:56 2016 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 1aMhzv-0001WK-PS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Jan 2016 21:07:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55347 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aMhzu-00033r-Uz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Jan 2016 15:07:54 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51378) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aMhzr-00033Z-5F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Jan 2016 15:07:51 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aMhzq-0001F0-4B for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Jan 2016 15:07:51 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:59549) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aMhzm-0001DC-SP; Fri, 22 Jan 2016 15:07:46 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1aMhzm-0005Jf-0S; Fri, 22 Jan 2016 15:07:46 -0500 In-reply-to: <87zivxesbp.fsf@web.de> (message from Michael Heerdegen on Fri, 22 Jan 2016 13:01:30 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:198600 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > Do you really think we should add a comment like that to the code? To > understand the definition, it's better to have a look at gv.el. After > having had a look, such a comment is not necessary anymore, since we > have a more or less trivial usage of `gv-letplace'. Then maybe the comment should say that. Anything that will help a fair fraction of readers understand the code is a useful comment. One might discuss just what is the best thing for a comment to say, but uncertainty about that point does not mean it is better not to have a comment. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.