From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: encode-time vs decode-time Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2019 22:41:36 -0400 Message-ID: References: <502b23f8-58ed-38ff-ae50-fae391129a10@cs.ucla.edu> <87v9viuivo.fsf@mouse.gnus.org> <83blx2cr2o.fsf@gnu.org> <8336iecfvr.fsf@gnu.org> <68d24d6a-d427-baef-27e9-ea1cbbd64c18@cs.ucla.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="210389"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , andrewjmoreton@gmail.com, larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 07 04:42:04 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hvBtr-000sbh-55 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 Aug 2019 04:42:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36980 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hvBtp-0003j5-D2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Aug 2019 22:42:01 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:51592) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hvBtZ-0003iw-2X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Aug 2019 22:41:45 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hvBtY-0003PB-7L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Aug 2019 22:41:45 -0400 Original-Received: from mailscanner.iro.umontreal.ca ([132.204.25.50]:44130) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hvBtW-0003OB-Pk; Tue, 06 Aug 2019 22:41:42 -0400 Original-Received: from pmg3.iro.umontreal.ca (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pmg3.iro.umontreal.ca (Proxmox) with ESMTP id 9B0D2445F41; Tue, 6 Aug 2019 22:41:40 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from mail01.iro.umontreal.ca (unknown [172.31.2.1]) by pmg3.iro.umontreal.ca (Proxmox) with ESMTP id 7776A445F3F; Tue, 6 Aug 2019 22:41:39 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=iro.umontreal.ca; s=mail; t=1565145699; bh=1jGca/Ecs9X8hkOp7VJ+mEh2A42DOHQZKrV7tzAmCtU=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:References:Date:In-Reply-To:From; b=pWO+YxpW4YZgj8cz5Rs6uLV8xFBgNWo8CuR2us3tliBf/zznQTf7eVgRepKle6GIB gBLy64YhhYJ2COlJZOSzAn5teB6l5NZO6C87yYFig8sBCudF/pssQsSfcZA9uPxWuI UDeIyxIm6McFWXJzAcHUBaMZCHi3mxqIroGgXC8T78PCRbxQmb80ILi6ZCb6Uuc1f9 kJ2Q8bqBrY3Q0V5qdDrWbav54bZiNKIKP2b9X4+AMhTUdy+GFW89wl9GgEJEiZwTmx NBQ02o3j08VBOA6lEyP0LgL0Ge8Y3fNGq8JhqHFx0vfYTm61cviRoQPzYNMtwDoTKu C+7flO2L3w7Pg== Original-Received: from alfajor (unknown [78.192.50.77]) by mail01.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id AED7B120F34; Tue, 6 Aug 2019 22:41:38 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <68d24d6a-d427-baef-27e9-ea1cbbd64c18@cs.ucla.edu> (Paul Eggert's message of "Tue, 6 Aug 2019 18:02:30 -0700") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 132.204.25.50 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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:239215 Archived-At: > Although almost all uses of decode-time will be unaffected by the change, > there's little doubt that some user code somewhere will break because it > (mistakenly) assumes that decode-time's result format will never be > extended. If this is a real concern, we can go about the change in some > other way. Actually, while I agree that it's possible it will break something somewhere, it's rather unlikely. Stefan