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From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
To: Nathan Trapuzzano <nbtrap@nbtrap.com>
Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Double unquote/unquote-splicing
Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2013 06:48:02 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874n7qldv1.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bo1yhnzh.fsf@nbtrap.com>

Nathan Trapuzzano writes:
 > "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org> writes:
 > 
 > > "It's pretty, so it must be right" is a fallacy.
 > 
 > I haven't argued in these terms at all.

That is true, and it doesn't matter.  It's an easy trap for others to
fall into, and it's a particularly dangerous one for Emacs, which is
intentionally permissive toward irregular hacks.

 > I think the only claim that can be legitimately said to be
 > "tenuous" is (3), given its subjective nature.  It seems to me that
 > the other points are simply true.

You've already admitted that they're not.  The best you can say is
that in your opinion the probability of doing any harm is negligible.



      reply	other threads:[~2013-11-05 21:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-04 14:03 Double unquote/unquote-splicing Nathan Trapuzzano
2013-11-04 17:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-11-04 17:59   ` Nathan Trapuzzano
2013-11-04 18:11     ` Nathan Trapuzzano
2013-11-04 18:33     ` Stefan Monnier
2013-11-04 19:01       ` Drew Adams
2013-11-04 19:09       ` Nathan Trapuzzano
2013-11-04 20:41         ` Stefan Monnier
2013-11-05 15:03           ` Nathan Trapuzzano
2013-11-05 19:14             ` Stefan Monnier
2013-11-05  4:01         ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-11-05 15:22           ` Nathan Trapuzzano
2013-11-05 21:48             ` Stephen J. Turnbull [this message]

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