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: Incompatible change without "warning" Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 17:45:07 -0400 Message-ID: References: <16997.28602.876638.54728@farnswood.snap.net.nz> <16998.58339.710430.454702@farnswood.snap.net.nz> <17000.13278.865098.49756@farnswood.snap.net.nz> <17006.1736.406738.121947@farnswood.snap.net.nz> <17006.46106.998776.20140@farnswood.snap.net.nz> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1114552474 8364 80.91.229.2 (26 Apr 2005 21:54:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 21:54:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 26 23:54:31 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DQXzj-0007Bm-J3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Apr 2005 23:53:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DQY5W-0000Xk-5b for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Apr 2005 17:59:26 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DQY3z-0008PS-CK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Apr 2005 17:57:51 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DQY3w-0008OB-Jr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Apr 2005 17:57:50 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DQY3w-0006rm-2R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Apr 2005 17:57:48 -0400 Original-Received: from [206.47.199.164] (helo=simmts6-srv.bellnexxia.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DQXvQ-0002Zy-5P; Tue, 26 Apr 2005 17:49:00 -0400 Original-Received: from empanada.home ([65.92.240.194]) by simmts6-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.10 201-253-122-130-110-20040306) with ESMTP id <20050426214508.FVNV1597.simmts6-srv.bellnexxia.net@empanada.home>; Tue, 26 Apr 2005 17:45:08 -0400 Original-Received: by empanada.home (Postfix, from userid 502) id 3131152FDD7; Tue, 26 Apr 2005 17:45:08 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: Nick Roberts In-Reply-To: <17006.46106.998776.20140@farnswood.snap.net.nz> (Nick Roberts's message of "Wed, 27 Apr 2005 09:35:22 +1200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (darwin) 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:36422 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:36422 > However, my first point was about using the same argument names in the > manual and the documentation string. Would this not generally be > a good idea? Yes, this is of course usually desirable, Stefan