From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Confused by y-or-n-p Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2021 02:52:34 -0500 Message-ID: References: <834kkcr1eo.fsf@gnu.org> <83im8qnyca.fsf@gnu.org> <83bleinmse.fsf@gnu.org> <56435592-d2d0-5fb6-977f-01e1931da835@gmx.at> <87k0t38g1z.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <83czyvkts6.fsf@gnu.org> <87bleetirr.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <87y2hhri3n.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <83pn2tkfg8.fsf@gnu.org> <871rf7ippu.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <83a6trg6mc.fsf@gnu.org> <83mtxqcauz.fsf@gnu.org> <83turva0y2.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="35046"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: rudalics@gmx.at, eliz@gnu.org, juri@linkov.net, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Gregory Heytings Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 07 08:55:15 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kxQ8Z-00090I-0d for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 07 Jan 2021 08:55:15 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53246 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kxQ8Y-0007qh-2x for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 07 Jan 2021 02:55:14 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:59254) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kxQ6N-0004Kj-Kn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jan 2021 02:53:00 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:51391) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kxQ6H-0002SR-Gd; Thu, 07 Jan 2021 02:52:56 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kxQ5y-0005Ks-Jk; Thu, 07 Jan 2021 02:52:34 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Gregory Heytings on Wed, 06 Jan 2021 09:41:09 +0000) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:262655 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. ]]] > A rule is not a mathematical law, it's an action guideline. Such a rule > would avoid having developers start working on something thinking that > scratching the current state of affairs to create something they believe > is better without thinking about backwards compatibility is okay. +1. -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)