From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>,
Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>,
Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: master 2bb0703 1/2: lisp/*.el: Force non-nil result to t, to match docstring
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2019 14:31:44 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvk193teeq.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAeL0SRC2L0n-SMh_2eFv+VX5RPe47Mi+g3i111YOLrG2pATkg@mail.gmail.com> (Juanma Barranquero's message of "Thu, 17 Oct 2019 20:18:15 +0200")
> There's a cascading effect.
Indeed, that's another reason why consistency is beneficial.
> So I think functions that can only return a boolean are not
> "overspecified" by saying so.
That's because you think they should return t. For those whose think
they should return non-nil, it's overspecified (even if they do only
ever return t in practice).
> FWIW, I don't consider making a function return what its docstring says "a
> cosmetic change".
I think a single bikeshed subject is sufficient, so I won't take this
opportunity to debate the definition of "cosmetic".
Stefan
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2019-10-17 15:15 ` master 2bb0703 1/2: lisp/*.el: Force non-nil result to t, to match docstring Drew Adams
2019-10-17 15:43 ` Juanma Barranquero
2019-10-17 18:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-10-17 18:18 ` Juanma Barranquero
2019-10-17 18:31 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2019-10-17 18:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-17 19:29 ` Stefan Monnier
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2019-10-17 1:08 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-10-17 1:44 ` Juanma Barranquero
2019-10-17 2:19 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-10-17 2:26 ` Juanma Barranquero
2019-10-17 2:49 ` Ergus
2019-10-17 3:45 ` Juanma Barranquero
2019-10-17 3:47 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-10-17 3:59 ` Juanma Barranquero
2019-10-17 7:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
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