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: Rationale for this change? Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 18:44:37 +0100 Message-ID: <85zmmjkdbu.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <85ek3xm2be.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <85u0csktg0.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <87wthn4y2e.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1135878339 10554 80.91.229.2 (29 Dec 2005 17:45:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 17:45:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: angeli@iwi.uni-sb.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 29 18:45:36 2005 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 1Es1q5-0008VT-N9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 29 Dec 2005 18:45:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Es1rS-0002cj-8y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 29 Dec 2005 12:46:46 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Es1qf-0002S6-A9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Dec 2005 12:45:57 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Es1qe-0002Rg-G7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Dec 2005 12:45:56 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Es1qe-0002Rc-D2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Dec 2005 12:45:56 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Es1r2-0005aV-6C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Dec 2005 12:46:20 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Es1oR-0000SF-Nc; Thu, 29 Dec 2005 12:43:40 -0500 Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id A71A11C4F93D; Thu, 29 Dec 2005 18:44:37 +0100 (CET) Original-To: Stefan Monnier In-Reply-To: <87wthn4y2e.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Thu, 29 Dec 2005 12:24:01 -0500") 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:48499 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: >> Ah, ok. I think rationales like that should be mentioned in the >> ChangeLog. Even if just as "(RFC 2222 =A7 5.1)". > > Often comments in the code are even better than in the ChangeLog. It is sort of pointless to talk about which of two things would be better if one does not rule out the other. --=20 David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum