From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: rewriting y-or-n-p to use read-char-choice Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 14:35:49 -0800 Message-ID: References: <8739mulshy.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1299796601 15264 80.91.229.12 (10 Mar 2011 22:36:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 22:36:41 +0000 (UTC) To: "'Ted Zlatanov'" , Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 10 23:36:36 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PxoTE-0000YL-Gb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Mar 2011 23:36:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43589 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PxoTD-0007Ga-Bv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Mar 2011 17:36:35 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=58344 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PxoT8-0007GV-G4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Mar 2011 17:36:31 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PxoT7-0000TC-9c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Mar 2011 17:36:30 -0500 Original-Received: from rcsinet10.oracle.com ([148.87.113.121]:49982) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PxoT7-0000T3-39 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Mar 2011 17:36:29 -0500 Original-Received: from rcsinet15.oracle.com (rcsinet15.oracle.com [148.87.113.117]) by rcsinet10.oracle.com (Switch-3.4.2/Switch-3.4.2) with ESMTP id p2AMaNwR022964 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Thu, 10 Mar 2011 22:36:25 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt355.oracle.com (acsmt355.oracle.com [141.146.40.155]) by rcsinet15.oracle.com (Switch-3.4.2/Switch-3.4.1) with ESMTP id p2AM05MZ021048; Thu, 10 Mar 2011 22:36:22 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt017.oracle.com by acsmt353.oracle.com with ESMTP id 1076814091299796550; Thu, 10 Mar 2011 14:35:50 -0800 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/130.35.178.194) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Thu, 10 Mar 2011 14:35:50 -0800 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <8739mulshy.fsf@lifelogs.com> Thread-Index: AcvfVCApqwbFBAG6TuiJHMg/DqXKxQAHuEAA X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5994 X-Source-IP: acsmt355.oracle.com [141.146.40.155] X-Auth-Type: Internal IP X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A090207.4D795267.0018,ss=1,fgs=0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 148.87.113.121 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:137066 Archived-At: > Stefan Monnier asked me to look at rewriting `y-or-n-p' to use > `read-char-choice'. Completely missing from your exposition of implementation issues is why. Why rewrite `y-or-n-p'? What advantages are sought/expected?