From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Your changes in revision 106240 Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2011 04:07:31 -0400 Message-ID: References: <83d3df8qod.fsf@gnu.org> <4EACBA10.9010007@cs.ucla.edu> <4EACE96E.9070800@cs.ucla.edu> <4EACF996.5000609@cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1319962064 31677 80.91.229.12 (30 Oct 2011 08:07:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2011 08:07:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 30 09:07:40 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RKQQe-0001bq-MC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Oct 2011 09:07:40 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42206 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RKQQd-0005Vu-VC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Oct 2011 04:07:39 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:54919) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RKQQb-0005Vp-2G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Oct 2011 04:07:38 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RKQQZ-0004di-HT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Oct 2011 04:07:36 -0400 Original-Received: from chene.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.20]:54914) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RKQQZ-0004db-CA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Oct 2011 04:07:35 -0400 Original-Received: from pastel.home (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by chene.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id p9U87WdO029869; Sun, 30 Oct 2011 04:07:32 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id DE0315928E; Sun, 30 Oct 2011 04:07:31 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <4EACF996.5000609@cs.ucla.edu> (Paul Eggert's message of "Sun, 30 Oct 2011 00:15:34 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.90 (gnu/linux) X-NAI-Spam-Flag: NO X-NAI-Spam-Level: X-NAI-Spam-Threshold: 5 X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0.2 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 2 Rules triggered GEN_SPAM_FEATRE=0.2, RV4025=0 X-NAI-Spam-Version: 2.2.0.9286 : core <4025> : streams <696669> : uri <995241> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 132.204.246.20 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:145796 Archived-At: > We should avoid arbitrary limits on the lengths of data structures. We're not bound by such a dogma. While it's generally true that we try to do that, we don't do it at any cost in every single possible case. Stefan