From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 08:32:46 -0700 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <561D241E.1010902@cs.ucla.edu> References: <561A19AB.5060001@cumego.com> <87io6dl0h0.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87lhb82qxc.fsf@gmail.com> <878u78b3hg.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87h9lwyv33.fsf@gmail.com> <561C368F.6010306@cs.ucla.edu> <87oag3xb2i.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1444750441 25259 80.91.229.3 (13 Oct 2015 15:34:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 15:34:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Oleh Krehel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 13 17:33:54 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Zm1aK-0000FA-Eu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Oct 2015 17:33:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36898 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zm1aJ-0005Vv-No for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Oct 2015 11:33:51 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48501) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zm1ZP-0005RD-IL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Oct 2015 11:32:56 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zm1ZM-000779-CL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Oct 2015 11:32:55 -0400 Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.68]:44093) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zm1ZM-000770-6s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Oct 2015 11:32:52 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DEFF1608CE; Tue, 13 Oct 2015 08:32:51 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10032) with ESMTP id hHx7q3H4jQkb; Tue, 13 Oct 2015 08:32:46 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F688160CF5; Tue, 13 Oct 2015 08:32:46 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at zimbra.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id ZZA32SWfRsCL; Tue, 13 Oct 2015 08:32:46 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.9] (pool-100-32-155-148.lsanca.fios.verizon.net [100.32.155.148]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 425451608CE; Tue, 13 Oct 2015 08:32:46 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.3.0 In-Reply-To: <87oag3xb2i.fsf@gmail.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 131.179.128.68 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:191478 Archived-At: Oleh Krehel wrote: > I'd like to switch all const > pointers to a single "const char *" style. Let's not. It's more consistent to put 'const' after the type it modifies, and if we're going to have a "standard" style, that's the one we should have. But really, we have better things to do. (I assume we can all agree, though, to avoid 'int const long'. :-)