From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 37940b3: min and max now return one of their arguments Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2017 10:04:57 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20170307012700.3354.30219@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <20170307012701.1C05D23F1F@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1488899153 27061 195.159.176.226 (7 Mar 2017 15:05:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2017 15:05:53 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: Paul Eggert To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 07 16:05:39 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 1clGgE-0005tB-Ek for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Mar 2017 16:05:38 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51055 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1clGgK-0007NH-Jt for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Mar 2017 10:05:44 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58664) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1clGff-0007Jp-SG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Mar 2017 10:05:09 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1clGfc-0006QN-Mz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Mar 2017 10:05:03 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:25345) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1clGfc-0006Q8-JH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Mar 2017 10:05:00 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: A0D4JgAMy75Y/zPujBhdHAEBBAEBCgEBg1FBihGFd5BYKQGVDoIMhRKBCgQCAoIgRxEBAgEBAQEBAQFrKIUWAQQBViMFCws0EhQYDYouCLIciwABAQEBBgIBJYs9hSCFGQWQVotalBoBiFuGYJM7OQEdgQMiFQgshzEiikgBAQE X-IPAS-Result: A0D4JgAMy75Y/zPujBhdHAEBBAEBCgEBg1FBihGFd5BYKQGVDoIMhRKBCgQCAoIgRxEBAgEBAQEBAQFrKIUWAQQBViMFCws0EhQYDYouCLIciwABAQEBBgIBJYs9hSCFGQWQVotalBoBiFuGYJM7OQEdgQMiFQgshzEiikgBAQE X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.35,258,1484024400"; d="scan'208";a="294647665" Original-Received: from 24-140-238-51.cpe.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([24.140.238.51]) by smtp.teksavvy.com with ESMTP; 07 Mar 2017 10:04:57 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 916AD67AA8; Tue, 7 Mar 2017 10:04:57 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <20170307012701.1C05D23F1F@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> (Paul Eggert's message of "Mon, 6 Mar 2017 20:27:00 -0500 (EST)") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.181 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:212812 Archived-At: > 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