From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jay Belanger Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Quoted while loop on calccomp.el Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2011 22:01:35 -0500 Message-ID: <87mxjpa8ds.fsf@gmail.com> References: Reply-To: jay.p.belanger@gmail.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1303009316 4947 80.91.229.12 (17 Apr 2011 03:01:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2011 03:01:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: jay.p.belanger@gmail.com To: Emacs developers Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 17 05:01:47 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QBIF4-0001OG-Pz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 17 Apr 2011 05:01:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58335 helo=lists2.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QBIF3-0001fZ-Uv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 16 Apr 2011 23:01:41 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:46632) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QBIF1-0001fJ-Cv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Apr 2011 23:01:40 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QBIF0-0006TS-Gx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Apr 2011 23:01:39 -0400 Original-Received: from s7.cableone.net ([24.116.0.233]:47953) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QBIF0-0006M5-8h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Apr 2011 23:01:38 -0400 Original-Received: from belanger-desktop (unverified [67.60.13.51]) by s7.cableone.net (CableOne SMTP Service s7) with ESMTP id 42597670-1872270 for multiple; Sat, 16 Apr 2011 20:01:36 -0700 In-Reply-To: (Juanma Barranquero's message of "Sat, 16 Apr 2011 04:30:51 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Vpipe: Scanner said ok (av_avast) X-IP-stats: Incoming Last 2, First 29, in=24, out=0, spam=0 ip=67.60.13.51 X-Originating-IP: 67.60.13.51 X-Abuse-Info: Send abuse complaints to abuse@cableone.net X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 24.116.0.233 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:138537 Archived-At: Juanma Barranquero writes: ... > it is the '(while stuff an ugly, but intended way to comment out the > while loop, or a mistake? Seems like the the latter, but if so, it's > been there since the initial import of Calc 2.02f on revno:40770 > (2001-11-06), which makes that code suspiciously unneeded... It's been there longer than that. It's in calc-comp.el from Calc 2.02, which goes back to 1991 or so. (The quoted "while" may well be older than that, but that's the earliest version of Calc I can find.) At this point, I suppose replacing the "if" with something simpler is in order. Jay