From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Cc: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 37940b3: min and max now return one of their arguments
Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2017 10:04:57 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvinnlqgew.fsf-monnier+emacsdiffs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170307012701.1C05D23F1F@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> (Paul Eggert's message of "Mon, 6 Mar 2017 20:27:00 -0500 (EST)")
> min and max now return one of their arguments
Since this is an incompatible change, I'm wondering what is the
motivation for this change. I can see advantages to both behaviors, but
I don't see an overriding advantage that would justify getting over the
inertia and breaking backward compatibility.
Stefan
next parent reply other threads:[~2017-03-07 15:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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[not found] ` <20170307012701.1C05D23F1F@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org>
2017-03-07 15:04 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2017-03-08 3:04 ` [Emacs-diffs] master 37940b3: min and max now return one of their arguments John Wiegley
2017-03-08 6:08 ` Paul Eggert
2017-03-08 15:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-03-08 22:04 ` Paul Eggert
2017-03-09 16:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-03-09 16:25 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2017-03-09 16:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-03-09 17:09 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2017-03-09 17:45 ` Paul Eggert
2017-03-09 18:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-03-07 19:08 ` Glenn Morris
2017-03-08 4:26 ` Tino Calancha
2017-03-08 5:27 ` Paul Eggert
2017-03-08 7:54 ` Andreas Schwab
2017-03-08 8:29 ` Andreas Schwab
2017-03-08 18:47 ` Paul Eggert
2017-03-08 22:10 ` Andreas Schwab
2017-03-11 14:46 ` Andreas Politz
2017-03-12 1:46 ` Tino Calancha
2017-03-12 23:33 ` Andreas Politz
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