From: John Wiegley <jwiegley@gmail.com>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: RFC: String interpolation
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2016 16:26:28 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m24m27tky3.fsf@newartisans.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a3a0b2d1-03da-cf90-a75a-1f8ba1e77a7e@cs.ucla.edu> (Paul Eggert's message of "Tue, 13 Dec 2016 16:17:58 -0800")
>>>>> "PE" == Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> writes:
PE> Although that would work, it's an incompatible change to documented
PE> behavior. The manual currently says that excess arguments are ignored,
PE> which means that currently all three expressions have well-defined (and
PE> differing) behaviors.
PE> A few months ago I changed 'message' in an incompatible way, figuring that
PE> almost nobody would care. Boy, was I wrong! That being said, I agree that
PE> the above style is simpler and would be easy to implement, and I can do it
PE> that way if you prefer.
I see. Personally, I don't think we need to extend format at all. How many
others really want this extension?
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2016-12-08 1:13 RFC: String interpolation Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-12-08 8:27 ` Andreas Schwab
2016-12-08 8:38 ` Joost Kremers
2016-12-08 9:05 ` Philippe Vaucher
2016-12-08 18:25 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-12-08 9:02 ` Philippe Vaucher
2016-12-08 18:22 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-12-08 14:43 ` Joost Kremers
2016-12-08 18:37 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-12-08 20:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-12-09 8:57 ` Joost Kremers
2016-12-08 15:51 ` Drew Adams
2016-12-08 18:21 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-12-08 20:38 ` Richard Stallman
[not found] ` <<E1cF5SK-0000HO-EL@fencepost.gnu.org>
2016-12-08 22:04 ` Drew Adams
2016-12-08 19:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-12-08 19:31 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-12-08 21:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-12-10 16:01 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-12-09 19:19 ` Ted Zlatanov
2016-12-09 22:45 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-12-11 2:53 ` Ted Zlatanov
2016-12-11 18:46 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-12-11 18:56 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-12-11 19:34 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-12-11 17:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-12-11 17:53 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-12-10 14:11 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-12-10 14:25 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-12-10 15:39 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-12-10 15:49 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-12-10 16:01 ` Yuri Khan
2016-12-10 17:58 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-12-11 17:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-12-11 19:31 ` Yuri Khan
2016-12-11 20:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-12-11 9:35 ` Richard Stallman
2016-12-11 16:29 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-12-11 18:42 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-12-12 19:41 ` Richard Stallman
2016-12-11 18:41 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-12-11 21:05 ` Helmut Eller
2016-12-11 21:26 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-12-12 2:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-12-12 9:44 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-12-12 13:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-12-12 14:47 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-12-12 15:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-12-12 15:26 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-12-12 17:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-12-12 17:12 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-12-12 17:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-12-12 13:40 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-12-12 14:43 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-12-12 14:54 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-12-12 17:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-12-12 17:46 ` Paul Eggert
2016-12-12 18:33 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-12-12 19:51 ` Ted Zlatanov
2016-12-12 20:41 ` Paul Eggert
2016-12-12 23:40 ` Paul Eggert
2016-12-13 17:42 ` Richard Stallman
2016-12-13 18:05 ` Paul Eggert
2016-12-13 23:55 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-12-14 0:07 ` Paul Eggert
2016-12-14 0:10 ` John Wiegley
2016-12-14 0:14 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-12-14 0:17 ` Paul Eggert
2016-12-14 0:26 ` John Wiegley [this message]
2016-12-14 1:48 ` Drew Adams
2016-12-14 2:48 ` Elias Mårtenson
2016-12-14 3:33 ` Drew Adams
2016-12-14 3:52 ` Elias Mårtenson
2016-12-14 13:52 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2016-12-14 13:57 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2016-12-14 0:24 ` Drew Adams
2016-12-14 0:21 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-12-14 14:10 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-12-14 17:00 ` Richard Stallman
2016-12-12 19:43 ` Richard Stallman
2016-12-12 21:11 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-12-13 17:41 ` Richard Stallman
2016-12-13 17:43 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-12-14 17:01 ` Richard Stallman
2016-12-13 1:04 ` Ted Zlatanov
2016-12-12 16:39 ` Helmut Eller
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