From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Drew Adams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#37930: 26.3; Elisp manual: please remove index entry `seq library' Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2019 08:00:09 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <80c877d4-178e-479b-bc12-048aefbb433f@default> References: <<5034f118-77b6-4f94-8d7b-2be7fd8f5195@default>> <<834kzwvutf.fsf@gnu.org>> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="178008"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: 37930@debbugs.gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii , Drew Adams Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 26 17:01:12 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1iONZ1-000kAt-Un for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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Sat, 26 Oct 2019 15:00:11 GMT Original-Received: from aserv0122.oracle.com (aserv0122.oracle.com [141.146.126.236]) by aserp3030.oracle.com with ESMTP id 2vvc6nhj87-1 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=OK); Sat, 26 Oct 2019 15:00:11 +0000 Original-Received: from abhmp0003.oracle.com (abhmp0003.oracle.com [141.146.116.9]) by aserv0122.oracle.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id x9QF0Aaf020438; Sat, 26 Oct 2019 15:00:11 GMT In-Reply-To: <<834kzwvutf.fsf@gnu.org>> X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.9.1 (1003210) [OL 16.0.4900.0 (x86)] X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=nai engine=6000 definitions=9422 signatures=668685 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=notspam policy=default score=0 suspectscore=0 malwarescore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 spamscore=0 mlxscore=0 mlxlogscore=938 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx scancount=1 engine=8.0.1-1908290000 definitions=main-1910260153 X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=nai engine=6000 definitions=9422 signatures=668685 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=notspam policy=default score=0 priorityscore=1501 malwarescore=0 suspectscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 spamscore=0 clxscore=1011 lowpriorityscore=0 mlxscore=0 impostorscore=0 mlxlogscore=999 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx scancount=1 engine=8.0.1-1908290000 definitions=main-1910260153 X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:170201 Archived-At: > tags 37930 wontfix > close 37930 > > > commentary, in a Lisp library > > dynamic-library-alist > > find library > > image-load-path-for-library > > library > > library compilation > > library header comments > > library search > > Lisp library > > load-library > > locate-library > > seq library > > > > `seq library' does not belong here. >=20 > Disagree. You are assessing index entries from > a completely wrong angle. What angle is that? You disagree that `seq library' doesn't belong. Fair enough. Why do you think it belongs? You didn't address the substance of the report: lack of a reason why it should be present. What's a good reason why it, alone among our many libraries, should have an index entry of that form? That's what begs justifying. There's no need to justify some imagined purist consistency. There should be no special need for a reason to remove it, if there's no reason to have it. Maybe there's a good reason for entry `seq library'. It's not obvious to me. If so, please say what it is. I'd like to understand. > > (Either that or entries also belong for > > some or all of the umpteen other libraries > > provided in an Emacs distribution.) >=20 > May I suggest to re-read the well-known > quotation about consistency by Ralph Waldo > Emerson? >=20 > There's no need for consistency here. (Once again, BTW) no one has argued for blind and systematic consistency. That's never a requirement. And I'd be the last person to argue for that. Occam's razor: If there's no good reason to add `seq library', why add it? If there's a reason for it _then_ close the report (after providing the reason, please).