From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: master a6b5985: Avoid duplicated character classes in rx Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2019 23:36:21 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20191203142243.9552.27513@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <20191203142246.0615C20A2B@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <79A83C7D-610F-4CA4-B5E9-7F11FD8A9365@acm.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="33314"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: mattiase@acm.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Juanma Barranquero Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 04 05:43:05 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1icMVB-0008ST-VM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Dec 2019 05:43:02 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33962 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1icMV7-00041Y-VJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Dec 2019 23:42:58 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:36856) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1icMOz-000402-2P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Dec 2019 23:36:39 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:42086) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1icMOq-0003VY-Fr; Tue, 03 Dec 2019 23:36:28 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1icMOj-0003MY-F8; Tue, 03 Dec 2019 23:36:21 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Juanma Barranquero on Tue, 3 Dec 2019 17:06:16 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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:243110 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. ]]] > > Probably, but I still think it's bad practice to use the return value of > > an operation which is fundamentally a side-effect. > So you've never written > (if (setq var value) ...) It is clearer to write (setq var value) (if var ...) -- Dr Richard Stallman Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)