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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
Cc: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: problem report #100
Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2008 15:25:02 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwviqq33aqk.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fxl7rclg.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> (Chong Yidong's message of "Mon, 01 Dec 2008 13:10:03 -0500")

> This was not really a bug, as the comments in xfaces.:5884 make clear.
> However, I checked in a change that makes the abort condition more
> precise, which should also prevent the checker from being confused.

This is indeed the best way to solve the non-bugs.
It's usually better to make the correctness obvious than to add
a comment explaining why this is correct.


        Stefan




      reply	other threads:[~2008-12-01 20:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-01 16:58 problem report #100 Dan Nicolaescu
2008-12-01 17:58 ` Davis Herring
2008-12-01 18:07 ` Andreas Schwab
2008-12-01 18:10 ` Chong Yidong
2008-12-01 20:25   ` Stefan Monnier [this message]

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