From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Quote file name args to start-process-shell-command?
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 13:37:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <85zmc1n4sj.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jeu029rd31.fsf@sykes.suse.de> (Andreas Schwab's message of "Thu\, 12 Oct 2006 13\:24\:50 +0200")
Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> writes:
> David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> Then the question is why it should behave like it.
>
> It was definitely designed that way.
By that argument, every misbehavior can be justified. Whenever an
implementation disagrees with expectation and doc string, one can
_always_ claim "it was definitely designed that way", since any
implementation will exhibit just the behavior that the code actually
happens to have.
It does not make sense to document desirable behavior that the
implementation does not provide. If the implementation can't
reasonably be expected to have the documented behavior, the
documentation needs to get changed.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-12 11:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-11 20:32 Quote file name args to start-process-shell-command? Lennart Borgman
2006-10-12 4:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-10-12 6:08 ` Lennart Borgman
2006-10-12 7:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-10-12 7:44 ` David Kastrup
2006-10-12 8:15 ` Kim F. Storm
2006-10-12 8:24 ` David Kastrup
2006-10-12 9:08 ` Andreas Schwab
2006-10-12 8:49 ` Andreas Schwab
2006-10-12 9:27 ` David Kastrup
2006-10-12 9:41 ` Andreas Schwab
2006-10-12 9:49 ` David Kastrup
2006-10-12 9:53 ` Andreas Schwab
2006-10-12 10:02 ` David Kastrup
2006-10-12 11:23 ` Andreas Schwab
2006-10-12 11:30 ` David Kastrup
2006-10-12 18:50 ` Stephen Leake
2006-10-12 19:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-10-13 15:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-10-13 18:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-10-13 19:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-10-13 20:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-10-14 13:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-10-14 16:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-10-14 18:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-10-16 0:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-10-16 4:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-10-16 6:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-10-16 9:22 ` Andreas Schwab
2006-10-16 18:46 ` Richard Stallman
2006-10-15 17:12 ` Richard Stallman
2006-10-12 10:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-10-12 11:01 ` David Kastrup
2006-10-12 11:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-10-12 22:38 ` Richard Stallman
2006-10-13 0:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-10-13 6:02 ` Lennart Borgman
2006-10-13 8:31 ` Kim F. Storm
2006-10-13 19:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-10-12 10:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-10-12 10:45 ` David Kastrup
2006-10-12 11:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-10-12 11:25 ` David Kastrup
2006-10-12 11:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-10-12 11:24 ` Andreas Schwab
2006-10-12 11:37 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2006-10-12 11:45 ` Andreas Schwab
2006-10-12 14:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-10-12 14:53 ` David Kastrup
2006-10-12 15:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-10-12 18:11 ` Stuart D. Herring
2006-10-12 19:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-10-12 20:27 ` Stuart D. Herring
2006-10-13 11:19 ` Richard Stallman
2006-10-12 22:38 ` Richard Stallman
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