From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: 19208@debbugs.gnu.org, Phillip Lord <phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk>
Subject: bug#19208: replace-match unhelpful error message
Date: Sat, 3 Aug 2019 13:50:55 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f4ff92f3-8d0c-1abc-e986-2f04aae352b9@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87imrec7oq.fsf@mouse.gnus.org>
Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> they are
> demonstrably confusing for people not used to seeing conditionals
> written that way, which is I think pretty much everybody, except four
> people working on Emacs. :-)
Just four? :-) (Actually the style is also used in other GNU projects.)
In this particular case the Leibniz style caught a potentially-serious bug.
Although I understand that it can be a minor irritation for newcomers, it is
quite useful for range checking and in practice I find that its reliability
outweighs any irritation. (I didn't like Val Schorre's advice either, when I
first heard it - but he was right.)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-08-03 20:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-28 17:00 bug#19208: replace-match unhelpful error message Phillip Lord
2019-08-03 14:01 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-08-03 20:22 ` Paul Eggert
2019-08-03 20:31 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-08-03 20:50 ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2019-08-04 9:09 ` Andreas Schwab
2019-08-03 23:59 ` Noam Postavsky
2019-08-04 9:02 ` Andreas Schwab
2019-08-04 14:12 ` Noam Postavsky
2019-08-04 15:13 ` Andreas Schwab
2019-08-04 17:41 ` Paul Eggert
2019-08-04 18:14 ` Andreas Schwab
2019-08-05 2:25 ` Richard Stallman
2019-08-04 11:47 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-08-04 9:18 ` Andreas Schwab
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