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: merging the unicode-2 branch Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2008 17:29:34 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20071230142812.C8027CF80B9@golux.thyrsus.com> <85wsqww8ie.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <200801031956.m03Ju5Al027134@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> <200801050933.m059XKsK013042@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1199572243 17646 80.91.229.12 (5 Jan 2008 22:30:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2008 22:30:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: esr@golux.thyrsus.com, Dan Nicolaescu , rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Andreas Schwab Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 05 23:30:59 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 1JBHXa-0007OU-Ac for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Jan 2008 23:30:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JBHXA-0004Rq-E8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Jan 2008 17:30:28 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JBHWh-0004Gn-Db for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Jan 2008 17:29:59 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JBHWd-0004Eo-Mv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Jan 2008 17:29:59 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JBHWd-0004Ei-HD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Jan 2008 17:29:55 -0500 Original-Received: from 206-248-175-132.dsl.teksavvy.com ([206.248.175.132] helo=ceviche.home) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JBHWW-0006kI-D5; Sat, 05 Jan 2008 17:29:49 -0500 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id BF2AFB40FF; Sat, 5 Jan 2008 17:29:34 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Andreas Schwab's message of "Sat, 05 Jan 2008 10:53:49 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: 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:86245 Archived-At: >> Then, for instance, I can know (or recall) that the function >> is intentionally coded to work in the PT != GTP case. > That is supposed to be written in a comment. A change log is not a good > replacement. There's theory and then there's practice: I agree that it "should" be in a comment, but experience shows that often people don't think hard enough about what to put in a changelog and what to put in comments, so the changelog is often a necessary crutch (which can also be used to improve the comments in the code, after the fact). Stefan