From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: format use inquiry Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2017 18:23:02 -0700 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: References: <7e7f068e4e.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <985B0D3E-3E31-4419-A53C-8FA3299587C2@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1498008201 25821 195.159.176.226 (21 Jun 2017 01:23:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2017 01:23:21 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.1.0 To: Jean-Christophe Helary , Emacs development discussions Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 21 03:23:17 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dNUMV-0006Ji-Uw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 21 Jun 2017 03:23:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51322 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dNUMa-0004lD-PO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 20 Jun 2017 21:23:20 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49319) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dNUMS-0004l8-75 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Jun 2017 21:23:12 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dNUMN-0006sj-90 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Jun 2017 21:23:12 -0400 Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.68]:60584) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dNUMN-0006s7-2J for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Jun 2017 21:23:07 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E8F916007B; Tue, 20 Jun 2017 18:23:04 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10032) with ESMTP id 12SuyCMtgP5U; Tue, 20 Jun 2017 18:23:03 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FC17160080; Tue, 20 Jun 2017 18:23:03 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at zimbra.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id gi5WkwlJJSRK; Tue, 20 Jun 2017 18:23:03 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from Penguin.CS.UCLA.EDU (Penguin.CS.UCLA.EDU [131.179.64.200]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id DF59416007B; Tue, 20 Jun 2017 18:23:02 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <985B0D3E-3E31-4419-A53C-8FA3299587C2@gmail.com> Content-Language: en-US X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 131.179.128.68 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:215842 Archived-At: On 06/20/2017 05:20 PM, Jean-Christophe Helary wrote: >> (format "http%s://elpa.gnu.org/packages/" (if (gnutls-available-p) >> "s" "")) > I'd rather have the urls are fully spelled out because it makes the code more readable. I'd rather not see two copies of essentially-identical URLs, as that's a maintenance hassle. Perhaps we could use a function that replaces http: with https: as needed.