From: "Mattias Engdegård" <mattiase@acm.org>
To: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: master 6eeab90632: Don't accept whitespace or hex floats in rgbi: colour specs
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2022 10:31:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <17382C6A-7253-40DF-BF3D-DE4090FAA07E@acm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wnh6ob10.fsf@yahoo.com>
7 mars 2022 kl. 01.34 skrev Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>:
> AFAICT, there are no other implementations of such an rgbi color
> specification (please correct me if I'm wrong.)
The syntax is from X11, or at least that is why Emacs supports it.
> I don't think there's a chance that the user will type any of those by
> mistake. Besides, the documentation can always be amended, and that
> function has no other specification. So I disagree that it doesn't do
> the user a service.
These unintended extensions do not provide the user with any additional expressive power so there seems to be little reason for them. For that matter, I believe that extensions should be motivated by needs, not by implementation happenstance. Don't you agree?
In any case we are debating angels dancing on a pinhead. I just fixed it because I made the mistake to begin with, and I don't think you should elevate my errors to holy scripture quite yet (please wait until I'm dead).
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[not found] ` <20220306130800.EE0F9C01681@vcs2.savannah.gnu.org>
2022-03-06 13:46 ` master 6eeab90632: Don't accept whitespace or hex floats in rgbi: colour specs Po Lu
2022-03-06 13:56 ` Mattias Engdegård
2022-03-06 16:49 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2022-03-07 0:34 ` Po Lu
2022-03-07 9:26 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-03-07 10:16 ` Po Lu
2022-03-07 15:16 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-03-07 9:31 ` Mattias Engdegård [this message]
2022-03-07 10:14 ` Po Lu
2022-03-07 13:36 ` Mattias Engdegård
2022-03-07 13:52 ` Po Lu
2022-03-07 16:06 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
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