From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] Generalize start-process with keyword args Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2015 11:35:56 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87d24d3uwz.fsf-ueno@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1426606953 32765 80.91.229.3 (17 Mar 2015 15:42:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2015 15:42:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Daiki Ueno Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 17 16:42:23 2015 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 1YXtcj-0005UF-6X for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 Mar 2015 16:41:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55574 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YXtci-0005If-MQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 Mar 2015 11:41:40 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54984) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YXtXl-0005SS-FS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Mar 2015 11:36:34 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YXtXi-0006TG-6c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Mar 2015 11:36:33 -0400 Original-Received: from mercure.iro.umontreal.ca ([132.204.24.67]:56524) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YXtXh-0006Sh-Vm; Tue, 17 Mar 2015 11:36:30 -0400 Original-Received: from hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.50]) by mercure.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDDDF2C13B; Tue, 17 Mar 2015 11:36:20 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from lechon.iro.umontreal.ca (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19AA21E5B8C; Tue, 17 Mar 2015 11:35:57 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: by lechon.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id D80B3B4102; Tue, 17 Mar 2015 11:35:56 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Daiki Ueno's message of "Tue, 17 Mar 2015 12:39:51 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-DIRO-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-DIRO-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-DIRO-MailScanner-SpamCheck: n'est pas un polluriel, SpamAssassin (score=-2.82, requis 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -2.82, MC_TSTLAST 0.00) X-DIRO-MailScanner-From: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 132.204.24.67 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:183959 Archived-At: >> Why can't we make it use the same methods when ":coding nil" is specified? > That would mean that the user explicitly specified no-conversion here. Bad idea. If she wants `no-conversion' (a bad name, for sure, she should say `binary' instead), then she should say so explicitly rather than by using nil. Stefan