From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: byte-compile-nogroup-warn effectively disabled
Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2008 21:17:46 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvod6axf4t.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1K5l4O-00039b-4v@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard M. Stallman's message of "Mon, 09 Jun 2008 13:22:12 -0400")
> Sorry, I haven't followed this. But IIUYC, I think it would be
> a mistake to automatically assign an option or face the group that
> was last specified before it in the same file.
> What for? What is gained? Sounds like an invitation for user
> errors that won't necessarily be noticed right away. It might not
> be an important error to assign the wrong group, but why encourage
> that possibility?
> That is what I feel, too. Omitting the :group is no big savings in
> effort; writing it gives you a chance to think about it.
I know. And we've already reached the conclusion that we have to agree
to disagree on this one.
Stefan
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-10 1:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-08 22:06 byte-compile-nogroup-warn effectively disabled Richard M Stallman
2008-06-09 1:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-06-09 6:46 ` Drew Adams
2008-06-09 8:02 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-06-09 13:55 ` Drew Adams
2008-06-09 20:09 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-06-09 20:26 ` Drew Adams
2008-06-09 17:22 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-06-10 1:17 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
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