From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 8e2b2a2: Minor cleanup in pdumper.c Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2019 17:07:42 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20190119182259.26893.32117@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <20190119182301.0DE562043D@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <034912a4e687ae39bfc17b45ec6a9ef7.squirrel@dancol.org> <4508562eb2e3fe5fedd01263f6c39d5c.squirrel@dancol.org> <176c3ec3-7c6a-8f89-b31c-66c8cd129339@cs.ucla.edu> <65893773f79082a62d6654c818979479.squirrel@dancol.org> <838szgat7o.fsf@gnu.org> <90ff5982-f610-e8f1-0f70-3de9dab70e34@cs.ucla.edu> <3524603b-ac5a-8da3-38d7-b05fb01db797@dancol.org> <47c974cf-4bbb-f7fe-ab0a-a8c385827bd0@cs.ucla.edu> <83zhrs8whx.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="248137"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: eliz@gnu.org, eggert@cs.ucla.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Daniel Colascione Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 23 23:23:44 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1gmQvv-0012Oh-5z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Jan 2019 23:23:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42774 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gmQvu-0006bd-5d for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Jan 2019 17:23:42 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:56706) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gmQuc-0005iw-N8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jan 2019 17:22:23 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:60435) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gmQgQ-0006ym-Dd; Wed, 23 Jan 2019 17:07:42 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1gmQgQ-0003NG-8i; Wed, 23 Jan 2019 17:07:42 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Daniel Colascione on Tue, 22 Jan 2019 17:29:33 -0800) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] 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:232659 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. ]]] > The C language is for people who know what they are doing. It would be > IMO unacceptable for it to reject assignments of a char* to a struct foo > *, or even warn by default about it, because any serious systems program > does that all the time. I get the impression that this is meant ironically, as part of an elliptical argument against the point someone else made about assigning a double value to an int variable. Was that what you meant? You did not say that, and I think many people on the list will not figure that out. That argument depends on background about the rules of C which was not stated. Many will not know that background, For clear communication, please always spell out the steps in your argument. To present just one step, and expect people to figure out how it relates to the context, is a recipe for incomprehension and confusion. (Why use emacs-devel to critique the rules of C?) -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)