From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: t and nil in pure memory? Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:47:18 -0500 Message-ID: <87iqd5sq6x.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: <200911112023.nABKNrH6023933@godzilla.ics.uci.edu> <87pr7oxieq.fsf@freebits.de> <200911130524.nAD5O5uu009102@godzilla.ics.uci.edu> <87my2nsfh3.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <877htqswq0.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1258696084 21680 80.91.229.12 (20 Nov 2009 05:48:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:48:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: dak@gnu.org, Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 20 06:47:56 2009 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 4.50) id 1NBMLc-0006JW-0x for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:47:56 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34540 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NBMLb-0001wA-FP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:47:55 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NBMLU-0001uW-ND for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:47:48 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NBMLP-0001pu-EM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:47:47 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=46323 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NBMLP-0001pl-6A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:47:43 -0500 Original-Received: from pantheon-po44.its.yale.edu ([130.132.50.78]:59492) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NBMLL-0000iP-EX; Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:47:40 -0500 Original-Received: from furry (adsl-99-58-202-243.dsl.wlfrct.sbcglobal.net [99.58.202.243]) (authenticated bits=0) by pantheon-po44.its.yale.edu (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id nAK5lMTi016834 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:47:31 -0500 Original-Received: by furry (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B334AC071; Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:47:19 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:12:55 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-YaleITSMailFilter: Version 1.2c (attachment(s) not renamed) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 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:117325 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > As maintainer I care about maintainability of the code. I will reject > such a change. > > 2 lines whose meaning is totally obvious -- not much work to maintain. > This looks like stubbornness to me. I have no reason to be stubborn > about it, so I will move on. (I sent an earlier email about this, but it seems to have gotten lost.) FWIW, in CLISP and CMUCL (unintern nil) and (unintern t) are no-ops returning nil. Presumably the other CL implementations do likewise. It seems to me that it'd do no harm to do likewise, but since others care strongly about this and I don't, I'll just shrug and go along...