From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: master 1e3b0f2: Improve doc strings of project.el Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2020 22:44:32 -0400 Message-ID: References: <5d59dd9b-0848-691a-615e-c16d2070b92d@yandex.ru> <837dv8oida.fsf@gnu.org> <834kqcoghk.fsf@gnu.org> <99bb8976-580a-ef8e-6b7d-130c3ca5cb8a@yandex.ru> <83y2nom3hy.fsf@gnu.org> <20200713075842.GA4332@tuxteam.de> <21b47cbb-d1aa-d875-2944-deebb7583961@yandex.ru> <20200717152702.GA18658@tuxteam.de> <922bca06-3425-6fa3-b184-89942c75e91d@yandex.ru> <20200718090546.GC30436@tuxteam.de> <3ae3a7c3-f8c4-a4de-d8bf-d4d62f8f4c44@yandex.ru> <1fcd8470-4763-552c-83a6-511f514701d5@yandex.ru> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="22215"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: tomas@tuxteam.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dmitry Gutov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 20 04:45:16 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jxLnn-0005eQ-JA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 20 Jul 2020 04:45:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44808 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jxLnm-0005Dc-Iv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 19 Jul 2020 22:45:14 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:41988) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jxLn9-0004MR-89 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Jul 2020 22:44:35 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:55019) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jxLn8-0001aE-H0; Sun, 19 Jul 2020 22:44:34 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jxLn6-0007D3-Es; Sun, 19 Jul 2020 22:44:32 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1fcd8470-4763-552c-83a6-511f514701d5@yandex.ru> (message from Dmitry Gutov on Mon, 20 Jul 2020 00:59:07 +0300) 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:253119 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. ]]] > This discussion is about project.el, not package.el. Sorry. I know nothing about project.el. I'm only suggesting its data structures should be described by comments. > I have nothing against comments, but in this case the data structures > are pretty trivial and obvious from the functions that create them. It is important to document the meaning of each slot -- that may not be obvious. Which values are valid? -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)