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: About `--' (was Re: filenotify.el) Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 09:06:52 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87d2ra9z4x.fsf@gmx.de> <1383316.4Bc292dOgY@descartes> <87vc52yq04.fsf@gmx.de> <4199085.Bycd8r9Vun@descartes> <8761x12x4k.fsf@gmx.de> <878v1x71lb.fsf_-_@rosalinde.fritz.box> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1372252043 30579 80.91.229.3 (26 Jun 2013 13:07:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 13:07:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: =?iso-8859-1?Q?R=FCdiger?= Sonderfeld , Michael Albinus , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stephen Berman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 26 15:07:23 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UrpRR-00038Y-JG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Jun 2013 15:07:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42899 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UrpRR-0003Q1-3P for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Jun 2013 09:07:21 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49352) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UrpRK-0003NC-MF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Jun 2013 09:07:16 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UrpRJ-0006Yx-Eu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Jun 2013 09:07:14 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.182]:57547) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UrpRJ-0006TR-B8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Jun 2013 09:07:13 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av4EABK/CFFMCppA/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IeAQEEAVYjBQsLNBIUGA0kiB4GwS2RCgOkeoFegxM X-IPAS-Result: Av4EABK/CFFMCppA/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IeAQEEAVYjBQsLNBIUGA0kiB4GwS2RCgOkeoFegxM X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.84,565,1355115600"; d="scan'208";a="17199719" Original-Received: from 76-10-154-64.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([76.10.154.64]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 26 Jun 2013 09:06:47 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id EC3D262E11; Wed, 26 Jun 2013 09:06:52 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <878v1x71lb.fsf_-_@rosalinde.fritz.box> (Stephen Berman's message of "Wed, 26 Jun 2013 09:50:08 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.182 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:161090 Archived-At: > I have two problems with this. First, the "Use two hyphens" sentence > shouldn't come between the other two, since "This practice" in the > following sentence only refers to using the prefix, not two hyphens. Good point. > Second, "not meant to be used by other packages" is too vague for me to > feel confident about how to apply it. For example, in the new version It means that something defined with "--" can completely change (or disappear) from one release to the other. Stefan