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 25.0.04: Feature Request: Make called-interactively-p's argument optional Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2016 16:02:04 -0400 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1467230581 23487 80.91.229.3 (29 Jun 2016 20:03:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2016 20:03:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rswgnu@gmail.com Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 29 22:02:47 2016 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 1bILh8-0003MQ-2E for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Jun 2016 22:02:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45568 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bILh7-0007Et-5Y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Jun 2016 16:02:45 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35600) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bILgY-0007EX-AP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Jun 2016 16:02:11 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bILgW-0007Hc-9q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Jun 2016 16:02:09 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:54431) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bILgU-0007GN-Qx; Wed, 29 Jun 2016 16:02:06 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1bILgS-0003Px-VP; Wed, 29 Jun 2016 16:02:05 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Robert Weiner on Tue, 28 Jun 2016 16:46:57 -0400) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:204945 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. ]]] > ​This is a frequently called function and it is not good design to make > everyone who has encountered it and read the documentation forever more > have to add that argument when so many of the use cases would not require > it. Maybe there is bad design in this -- in the fact that programmers need to make this complex choice to avoid giving users bad behavior. Good design would, I suppose, make the choice unnecessary. Telling people to ignore the choice, or choose at random, while the choice is still necessary, would not be better design. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.