From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.mail.wanderlust.general Subject: Re: /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r102775: Allow format args for y-or-n-p and yes-or-no-p. Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 21:59:14 -0500 Message-ID: <87d3nsnuv1.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: <87ei8gsnwz.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1295492372 9982 80.91.229.12 (20 Jan 2011 02:59:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 02:59:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: yamaoka@jpl.org, wl-en@lists.airs.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 20 03:59:27 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PfkkB-0007v2-6b for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Jan 2011 03:59:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58799 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PfkkA-0001ok-IS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Jan 2011 21:59:26 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=55783 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pfkk5-0001oe-Pb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Jan 2011 21:59:22 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pfkk5-0001AT-07 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Jan 2011 21:59:21 -0500 Original-Received: from vm-emlprdomr-04.its.yale.edu ([130.132.50.145]:48269) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pfkk3-00019u-8N; Wed, 19 Jan 2011 21:59:19 -0500 Original-Received: from furball (dhcp128036014187.central.yale.edu [128.36.14.187]) (authenticated bits=0) by vm-emlprdomr-04.its.yale.edu (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p0K2xGx4000998 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Wed, 19 Jan 2011 21:59:17 -0500 Original-Received: by furball (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 483691622CF; Wed, 19 Jan 2011 21:59:14 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Thu, 13 Jan 2011 20:54:21 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.71 on 130.132.50.145 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:134798 gmane.mail.wanderlust.general:4378 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > Good point. For compatibility, probably we should fall back on the old > behavior if only one argument is supplied. > > That will work in practice, but it is kludgy and ugly. That is why I > didn't do this. I regret that I did not initially made y-or-n-p and > yes-or-no-p use format. Fair enough; I reverted the change. > Maybe the thing is to add two new functions which are similar > but always call format. Probably not worth it, unless a much more concise set of function names is offered. I guess we'll have to live with this unfortunate historical accident.