From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Oleh Krehel Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 18:13:34 +0200 Message-ID: <87vbaaagr5.fsf@gmail.com> 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> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1444752890 8363 80.91.229.3 (13 Oct 2015 16:14:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 16:14:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 13 18:14:49 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 1Zm2Dw-000769-1F for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Oct 2015 18:14:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37232 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zm2Dv-00086X-Fr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Oct 2015 12:14:47 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34263) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zm2Cp-0007v4-AO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Oct 2015 12:13:40 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zm2Cm-00050U-1k for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Oct 2015 12:13:39 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-wi0-x22e.google.com ([2a00:1450:400c:c05::22e]:33829) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zm2Cl-00050H-Ns for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Oct 2015 12:13:35 -0400 Original-Received: by wicgb1 with SMTP id gb1so95412465wic.1 for ; Tue, 13 Oct 2015 09:13:34 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=from:to:cc:subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id :user-agent:mime-version:content-type; bh=wLczb0EJutK20WWzxYKxxYjtoUomrGPGsZYVARi4Tqc=; b=aAeCwBjv9oEegbw1rgnQpYRqJgJ21EQB0IPiCPkyYkKh7jjavWuKRjfT3FbQNieQ42 nVYIAVBzx8f1s3ZvjvthVgfjRDqp0R6/SqomvzhypythwqHBrqHzVVV39Dnq41og8JY+ RZScLhb2ZJ7DUCD2krESjfTCcEW442YLNnQ3fso/zehi6I6zW8X7AiQXPYZfsrTazcTZ sZR0PmfP89wOc0wBpY9T7irm+8YWT1Wl7YPipHe6pAE4tTfEXmxrSfl2s8akUnjn/2fI 6sYny6XUFPmq/H0/vKXussdrz4kPY4W2SErfc3g407qg/sBVS4H7cLlWCKbZoyLnil1c Y/KQ== X-Received: by 10.180.189.12 with SMTP id ge12mr8434749wic.73.1444752799568; Tue, 13 Oct 2015 09:13:19 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from firefly (dyn069045.nbw.tue.nl. [131.155.69.45]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id gd10sm4512566wjb.47.2015.10.13.09.13.18 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Tue, 13 Oct 2015 09:13:18 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <561D241E.1010902@cs.ucla.edu> (Paul Eggert's message of "Tue, 13 Oct 2015 08:32:46 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2a00:1450:400c:c05::22e 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:191487 Archived-At: Paul Eggert writes: > Oleh Krehel wrote: >> I'd like to switch all const >> pointers to a single "const char *" style. > > Let's not. It's more consistent to put 'const' after the type it > modifies, and if we're going to have a "standard" style, that's the > one we should have. "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. > But really, we have better things to do. 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. Oleh