From: "Clément Pit--Claudel" <clement.pit@gmail.com>
To: 24353@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#24353: 25.1.1: looking-back wrong info
Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2016 13:35:01 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <77b23825-05cb-1f30-ebee-4b70dbfa986c@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bb5f8437-5df1-4133-ac06-a5546f69d0f3@default>
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On 2016-09-02 19:59, Drew Adams wrote:
>> > thus making their code likely faster. Users like faster programs.
> The right way to _encourage_ programmers to use it is to
> tell them precisely that: "Using LIMIT is recommended - it
> typically results in faster code."
>
> Or "strongly recommended". Or "You're nuts if you omit LIMIT!"
> Or whatever other positive or negative encouragement you think
> might be most effective and appropriate.
>
> Telling them nothing about this and, instead, just showing a
> false signature, does NOT help them.
This sounds wrong. The signature change causes warnings on all uses that don't specify LIMIT. That's how I learnt about the change; I wouldn't have updated my code otherwise.
So changing the advertised signature seems to help, if only due to the warning side-effect.
Clément.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-03 17:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-02 8:48 bug#24353: 25.1.1: looking-back wrong info Andreas Röhler
2016-09-02 8:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-09-02 9:57 ` Andreas Röhler
2016-09-02 10:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-09-02 17:51 ` Drew Adams
2016-09-02 19:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-09-02 20:10 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-09-02 23:59 ` Drew Adams
2016-09-03 0:03 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-09-03 0:10 ` Drew Adams
2016-09-03 0:14 ` npostavs
2016-09-03 0:15 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-09-03 0:28 ` Drew Adams
2016-09-03 17:35 ` Clément Pit--Claudel [this message]
2016-09-03 18:10 ` Drew Adams
2016-09-03 18:24 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-09-03 18:31 ` npostavs
2016-09-03 18:57 ` Drew Adams
2016-09-04 13:08 ` Michael Heerdegen
2016-09-03 17:50 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-09-03 18:42 ` Drew Adams
2016-09-03 18:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2016-09-02 20:03 ` Drew Adams
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