From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] Generalize start-process with keyword args Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2015 17:42:49 +0200 Message-ID: <83pp87y6iu.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87d24d3uwz.fsf-ueno@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1426607038 2007 80.91.229.3 (17 Mar 2015 15:43:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2015 15:43:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ueno@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 17 16:43:45 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 1YXteT-0006gF-Ug for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 Mar 2015 16:43:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55588 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YXteT-0008OP-9R for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 Mar 2015 11:43:29 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59034) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YXte5-0008GL-Ia for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Mar 2015 11:43:06 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YXte1-0001NA-Ll for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Mar 2015 11:43:05 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:61770) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YXte1-0001N3-DR; Tue, 17 Mar 2015 11:43:01 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NLD00H004Y0G400@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Tue, 17 Mar 2015 17:42:59 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NLD00HYU4ZN6F90@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Tue, 17 Mar 2015 17:42:59 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.166 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:183960 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2015 11:35:56 -0400 > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > >> Why can't we make it use the same methods when ":coding nil" is specified? > > That would mean that the user explicitly specified no-conversion here. > > Bad idea. If she wants `no-conversion' (a bad name, for sure, she > should say `binary' instead), then she should say so explicitly rather > than by using nil. Unfortunately, that ship sailed long ago.