From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 16990@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#16990: 24.3.50; Return a useful value for motion functions
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2016 20:00:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r3doxpkd.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45c7f5b6-c217-47ab-8fca-c2ab2f046cff@default> (Drew Adams's message of "Tue, 11 Mar 2014 13:03:40 -0700 (PDT)")
Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
> Enhancement request: Return a useful value for motion functions, when
> possible.
>
> The set of candidate functions for enhancement are motion functions.
> Yes, each needs to be checked in detail, and handled appropriately.
> One size does not fit all. A return value choice should be based on
> what is generally most useful in the context of using the function.
>
> This is the promised followup from the discussion for bug #15117. See
> that thread for more information (relevant functions, possible return
> values, etc.)
I seem to recall that this was about you wanting side-effect-only
functions to return values? The rest of us were against it, I think.
Closing.
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2014-03-11 20:03 bug#16990: 24.3.50; Return a useful value for motion functions Drew Adams
2016-04-29 18:00 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2016-04-29 18:55 ` Drew Adams
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