From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: message's docstring Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2006 13:17:21 +0100 Message-ID: <854pt4zwoe.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <85r6w9ynpl.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1163333873 10902 80.91.229.2 (12 Nov 2006 12:17:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2006 12:17:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 12 13:17:52 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GjEHO-00080n-TQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 12 Nov 2006 13:17:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GjEHO-00044c-9o for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 12 Nov 2006 07:17:42 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GjEHC-000421-AV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Nov 2006 07:17:30 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GjEHB-000418-DU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Nov 2006 07:17:29 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GjEHB-000415-Ad for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Nov 2006 07:17:29 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GjEHB-0005DE-Ap for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Nov 2006 07:17:29 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1GjEHA-0002Gb-Pt; Sun, 12 Nov 2006 07:17:29 -0500 Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 1E72A1CD9DA7; Sun, 12 Nov 2006 13:17:21 +0100 (CET) Original-To: "Juanma Barranquero" In-Reply-To: (Juanma Barranquero's message of "Sun\, 12 Nov 2006 13\:08\:21 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.90 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:62110 Archived-At: "Juanma Barranquero" writes: > On 11/12/06, David Kastrup wrote: > >> That sounds nonsensical. Shouldn't this be >> (y-or-n-p (format ...)) >> instead? > > Surely yes. But the fact that it did work till now is because message > returns the message string. > > So, either we document it, or document that the result is irrelevant > (but it certainly doesn't look so, looking at the code). But we should let ourselves be governed rather by code working as intended rather than stuff in need of fixing. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum