From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: doc elisp intro cross reference fixes Date: 20 Nov 2003 15:47:23 +0100 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <87wua28zux.fsf@zip.com.au> <87ad6vdsxi.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <200311190418.hAJ4ITC02466@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <200311190528.hAJ5SrK02553@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <3FBBD155.2050703@yahoo.com> <200311192238.hAJMcTM06424@raven.dms.auburn.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1069340035 30580 80.91.224.253 (20 Nov 2003 14:53:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 14:53:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Luc Teirlinck , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 20 15:53:52 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AMqBs-0004cq-00 for ; Thu, 20 Nov 2003 15:53:52 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AMqBs-0006Iu-00 for ; Thu, 20 Nov 2003 15:53:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AMr8C-0006Qo-JP for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Thu, 20 Nov 2003 10:54:08 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AMr64-0004mG-HE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Nov 2003 10:51:56 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AMr5L-00041e-Bm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Nov 2003 10:51:42 -0500 Original-Received: from [217.80.160.118] (helo=localhost.localdomain) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.24) id 1AMr3O-00025l-Fb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Nov 2003 10:49:10 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id hAKElUI5017864 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 20 Nov 2003 15:47:30 +0100 Original-Received: (from dak@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) id hAKElOlO017860; Thu, 20 Nov 2003 15:47:24 +0100 Original-To: Stefan Monnier In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 24 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:17966 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:17966 Stefan Monnier writes: > >> > >> And the fact that nobody has ever complained about the fact that > >> set-variable can be used on vars that don't have a * (as long as > >> they're defined with `defcustom') indicates that it is not a bad > >> behavior. > > > And the fact that nobody has ever complained about undiscovered > > crimes indicates that they are not a bad thing... > > Sorry, but absurd analogies do not count as an argument in my book, > especially not if they resort to things like crime, nazism, etc... So let me put this without any analogy: I fail to see that merely because it took a while to discover a bug (and a discrepancy between documentation and behavior is a bug) this means that the bug is correct behavior. Most bugs go unnoticed or at least unrecorded for a long time. That does not make them desirable. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum