From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mathieu Lirzin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 13:21:55 +0200 Message-ID: <87lhb5g0fg.fsf@openmailbox.org> References: <561A19AB.5060001@cumego.com> <87io6dl0h0.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87lhb82qxc.fsf@gmail.com> <878u78b3hg.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87h9lwyv33.fsf@gmail.com> <561C368F.6010306@cs.ucla.edu> <87oag3xb2i.fsf@gmail.com> <561D241E.1010902@cs.ucla.edu> <87vbaaagr5.fsf@gmail.com> <86io6amqhd.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1444821840 5750 80.91.229.3 (14 Oct 2015 11:24:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 11:24:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Andy Moreton Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 14 13:23:52 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZmK9v-0006Tv-Uh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Oct 2015 13:23:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41697 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZmK9v-0000KG-7o for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Oct 2015 07:23:51 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51773) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZmK8C-0008GW-LK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Oct 2015 07:22:05 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZmK89-0007pC-V7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Oct 2015 07:22:04 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp22.openmailbox.org ([62.4.1.56]:53907) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZmK89-0007ny-Mq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Oct 2015 07:22:01 -0400 Original-Received: by mail2.openmailbox.org (Postfix, from userid 1002) id C82BE7C0FCD; Wed, 14 Oct 2015 13:21:59 +0200 (CEST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple/simple; d=openmailbox.org; s=openmailbox; t=1444821719; bh=MYXk7lFJlLam2d4MaJqz6ztBVvK7g0gXtG62QOMQAFI=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:References:Date:In-Reply-To:From; b=HZRV6CBhlfiwGSp5rOwQaOLq/5wPs59va/dsyLJbXXXAIDgz2Equ1Y9cMxurWcnwS DNzAwJ+I+pguu9tqBn3M3Ze9SQJZYcnNi5sxXLdNquEz72eNFMQDtTa7XFIn5624m3 CeXscgryFNZm2AzTcWQDG1gWNNLtX8KnD3S6b9SA= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple/simple; d=openmailbox.org; s=openmailbox; t=1444821715; bh=MYXk7lFJlLam2d4MaJqz6ztBVvK7g0gXtG62QOMQAFI=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:References:Date:In-Reply-To:From; b=s14FLmcnXpzGBEahckiJMfsPMrWhUL64mzkadY5hAkZERgjEpn43lZKWTMNIFrNe9 Dt6DnOEgZJ/kJUJ5e35MDQYB0iTXY7DsZS3MmkHU1pok4SAUojKIZdnaOU75h+hw0X N6vCdEb2no/tEH8C7l0XLeZoNTo1gXIG+/S9YHDA= In-Reply-To: <86io6amqhd.fsf@gmail.com> (Andy Moreton's message of "Tue, 13 Oct 2015 22:02:38 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 62.4.1.56 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:191544 Archived-At: Andy Moreton writes: > On Tue 13 Oct 2015, Oleh Krehel wrote: [...] >> "const char *" style is used in 85.9% of the cases. If you want to >> revert those uses to "char const *" I'll support you, since I want the >> consistency of a single style. > > Consistency is helpful, but pointless churn makes version history less > useful, so please don't make this kind of change unless you are also > making a semantic change to that area of the code. [...] >> I don't. I have no problem spending time to replace "char const *" into >> "const char *". Browsing through a code base that I want to get familiar >> with and fixing a small annoyance doesn't sound bad to me. > > Pointless churn. Find something that fixes an bug, or adds a useful new > feature, and work on that. You will find it more rewarding, and other > users and developers will find your contribution more helpful. > > AndyM Please express your opinion in a different way. This kind of language is direspectful to Oleh. "other users and developers" have various interests so please don't tell what others will find useful or not. -- Mathieu Lirzin