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: problem report #100 Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2008 15:25:02 -0500 Message-ID: References: <200812011658.mB1GwCEE015333@mothra.ics.uci.edu> <87fxl7rclg.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1228163297 5229 80.91.229.12 (1 Dec 2008 20:28:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 20:28:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Dan Nicolaescu , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Chong Yidong Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 01 21:29:20 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1L7FOF-0001qM-BL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 01 Dec 2008 21:29:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54329 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L7FN4-0004qo-PX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 01 Dec 2008 15:27:54 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L7FKQ-0003vs-Bb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Dec 2008 15:25:10 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L7FKP-0003vg-Gt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Dec 2008 15:25:10 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=58199 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L7FKP-0003vd-CN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Dec 2008 15:25:09 -0500 Original-Received: from pruche.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.22]:40391) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L7FKO-0003Do-VT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Dec 2008 15:25:09 -0500 Original-Received: from alfajor.home (vpn-132-204-232-120.acd.umontreal.ca [132.204.232.120]) by pruche.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id mB1KPcx7014610; Mon, 1 Dec 2008 15:25:40 -0500 Original-Received: by alfajor.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 39DD41C1EF; Mon, 1 Dec 2008 15:25:02 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <87fxl7rclg.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> (Chong Yidong's message of "Mon, 01 Dec 2008 13:10:03 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 1 Rules triggered RV3159=0 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:106402 Archived-At: > 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