Re: National Language Support Functions

["Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2006 16:21:14 +0100
>> From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
>> CC: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
>>     
>>>   http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2005-07/msg00467.html
>>>
>>> and the discussion that followed.
>>>       
>> Did not I explain why that argument is not valid here?
>>     
>
> You said:
>
>   "I would not suggest using it if I believed that."
>
> This hardly qualifies as explaining why my argument ``is not valid''.
>   

I can not see why you think that is the explanation?

Instead of explaining it all myself I gave you some links to other pages 
that described the situation.

>   
>> If you take a look at the code you will see that very little will
>> have to change to allow this hook.
>>     
>
> What I said back then had nothing to do with how easy or hard is it to
> allow your hook.  I was talking about long-term maintenance burden,
> not short-term amount of work.
>   

Yes, that is true and a very good argument. I just happen to disagree on 
the amount of maintenance burden.