From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] * etc/NEWS: Document incompatibilities introduced by record types. Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2017 18:03:07 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20171211213729.41411-1-phst@google.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1513206253 6774 195.159.176.226 (13 Dec 2017 23:04:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2017 23:04:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 14 00:04:06 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ePG4L-0001MJ-D8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 14 Dec 2017 00:04:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38158 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ePG4S-0000TI-L0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Dec 2017 18:04:12 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51900) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ePG3U-0000Rf-DB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Dec 2017 18:03:13 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ePG3S-0006L5-Sx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Dec 2017 18:03:12 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:44585) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ePG3Q-0006G3-Dc; Wed, 13 Dec 2017 18:03:08 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ePG3P-0006uv-TP; Wed, 13 Dec 2017 18:03:07 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on Tue, 12 Dec 2017 17:20:29 -0500) 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: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:221034 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. ]]] > When was the last time you saw a user try to redefine the > "integer" type? Since this is a new feature, we have no evidence about how often that will happen. But that is a secondary question. It is better to help people catch errors early, and it doesn't cause any harm, so let's do it. Just because there are many things one could do in Emacs that would screw things up is not an argument for making more. The most it argues for is that we need not bend over backwards to avoid more. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See https://stallman.org/skype.html.