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: Strange change in bytecmop.el Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 18:44:59 +0200 Message-ID: <85ek9o40hg.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <87sly54b2s.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1122224669 5560 80.91.229.2 (24 Jul 2005 17:04:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 17:04:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 24 19:04:19 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dwjtf-0002tX-Bp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 24 Jul 2005 19:04:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dwjvu-0006KM-LD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 24 Jul 2005 13:06:34 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Dwjsg-0005qj-PV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Jul 2005 13:03:15 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DwjsQ-0005j8-TJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Jul 2005 13:03:00 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DwjsP-0005f7-2p for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Jul 2005 13:02:57 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DwjlU-0007Gs-NC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Jul 2005 12:55:48 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Dwjai-00044w-Uw; Sun, 24 Jul 2005 12:44:41 -0400 Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id BE37C1C4CD77; Sun, 24 Jul 2005 18:44:59 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Richard M. Stallman's message of "Sun, 24 Jul 2005 10:41:31 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (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:41187 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:41187 "Richard M. Stallman" writes: > Why bother. People already use (featurep 'xemacs) in order to > check whether they're running on Emacs or XEmacs. So (featurep > 'emacs) would be redundant. > > But that way the code always says (featurep 'xemacs). Naturally. (featurep 'xemacs) means "here is an exception for the sake of XEmacs". We don't have to make exceptions for the sake of Emacs. We are the main line. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum