From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2015 12:39:15 -0500 Message-ID: References: <83bnxuzyl4.fsf@gnu.org> <87vbkovhh7.fsf@engster.org> <87387rvobr.fsf@engster.org> <83ppat84hk.fsf@gnu.org> <20150106143933.0090bc83@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> <83r3v77ij6.fsf@gnu.org> <20150106154539.3d0752c4@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> <87wq4ype3z.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <878uherlf3.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87sifkredt.fsf@wanadoo.es> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1420825254 18620 80.91.229.3 (9 Jan 2015 17:40:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2015 17:40:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Óscar Fuentes Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 09 18:40:50 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 1Y9dXD-0008VR-E3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 09 Jan 2015 18:39:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51616 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y9dXC-0006Cq-Nk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 09 Jan 2015 12:39:42 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41910) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y9dWo-00067C-AB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Jan 2015 12:39:23 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y9dWm-0007Qc-Jb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Jan 2015 12:39:18 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:52996) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y9dWm-0007QS-HA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Jan 2015 12:39:16 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y9dWl-0006M7-Ua; Fri, 09 Jan 2015 12:39:16 -0500 In-reply-to: <87sifkredt.fsf@wanadoo.es> (message from Óscar Fuentes on Fri, 09 Jan 2015 01:23:10 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:181104 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > Ok, I'll try again: let's suppose an extension that highlights chunks of > code that might have side effects, or that could use multi-threading > features, or that could result on calls to certain functions, Those certainly don't need the statement structure. or some > other condition specified by the user. That's not specific, that's handwaving. There is no doubt about the value > of such extension, How can we say anything about the worth of something totally unspecified? To reach your desired conclusion, you will leap huge logical crevasses. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call.