From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
To: Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>
Cc: 7408@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#7408: Linux patchutils: Development of the project?
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 22:59:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTinSwRkAqR4OkNzaKsDkWEkrqibnG92f0r6zbrzw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pqu59d16.fsf@picasso.cante.net>
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 10:25 PM, Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net> wrote:
> Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
>> subr.el has had a dolist definition since at least Emacs 21.x; ie 9 years.
>> Therefore this cannot be a major issue in practice.
>
> In my book it is still a bug, no matter how many years ago this bug were
> introduced:
>
> - To have two different implementations of same function.
> - To not be able to rely on uniform behavior.
IMO subtle differences are among the worst bugs. It can take a long
time to discover what is wrong and you often guess wrong (especially
if you are not aware of how difficult it can be).
And the subtle difference often shows up in complicated situations.
Maybe the cl version should be renamed?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-16 21:59 UTC|newest]
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[not found] ` <1213200935.4147.62.camel@cyberelk.elk>
2010-10-16 13:42 ` bug#7227: re-search-forward goes infinite loop with dash inside [] Jari Aalto
2010-10-16 13:54 ` Andreas Schwab
2010-11-16 21:25 ` bug#7408: Linux patchutils: Development of the project? Jari Aalto
2010-11-16 21:59 ` Lennart Borgman [this message]
2010-11-16 22:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-11-17 4:47 ` jari
2010-11-17 8:25 ` Glenn Morris
2010-11-17 13:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-11-17 12:47 ` Štěpán Němec
2010-11-17 13:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-11-18 22:02 ` bug#7408: 23.2.1 dolist -- subr.el and cl-macs differ with nil-block return Jari Aalto
2010-11-21 5:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-11-21 9:08 ` jari
2010-11-21 17:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-11-21 18:51 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-11-17 14:18 ` bug#7408: Linux patchutils: Development of the project? martin rudalics
2010-11-15 10:51 bug#7408: 23.2.1 dolist -- subr.el and cl-macs differ with nil-block return Jari Aalto
2010-11-21 23:19 ` bug#7408: Linux patchutils: Development of the project? MON KEY
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2010-10-16 9:16 bug#7227: re-search-forward goes infinite loop with dash inside [] Jari Aalto
2010-10-16 11:27 ` Andreas Schwab
2010-10-16 11:39 ` Andreas Röhler
2010-10-22 7:55 ` bug#7227: Close bts:gnu Jari Aalto
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