From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Your changes in revision 106240
Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2011 00:15:34 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EACF996.5000609@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvpqhfm1pu.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
On 10/29/11 23:31, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> it could be `char' or `short' and that would work just as well
But by that line of reasoning, the parameter could be 'bool', which
would also work just as well, so long as one likes the arbitrary
limit of 1 that is imposed by 'bool'.
We should avoid arbitrary limits on the lengths of data structures.
Limiting that list length to 1, or to 255, or to 65535, would impose
an arbitrary limit.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-30 7:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-29 20:54 Your changes in revision 106240 Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-30 2:44 ` Paul Eggert
2011-10-30 5:06 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-30 6:06 ` Paul Eggert
2011-10-30 6:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-30 6:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-30 7:15 ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2011-10-30 7:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-31 6:23 ` Paul Eggert
2011-10-30 8:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-31 6:28 ` Paul Eggert
2011-10-30 6:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-30 7:04 ` Paul Eggert
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