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: [Emacs-diffs] master 4d3a595: `load-path' should contain only directory names Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2015 15:00:55 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20151023135532.11512.53356@vcs.savannah.gnu.org> <83mvv8wejc.fsf@gnu.org> <86bnboeymw.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <83wpuadc9k.fsf@gnu.org> <86d1w1ahsy.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <562E2A8A.1030601@yandex.ru> <83wpu9bns4.fsf@gnu.org> <83r3khbhz7.fsf@gnu.org> <83eggg419o.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1445972490 11815 80.91.229.3 (27 Oct 2015 19:01:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2015 19:01:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org, dgutov@yandex.ru To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 27 20:01:18 2015 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 1Zr9Ui-0004Tg-Bc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 27 Oct 2015 20:01:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33885 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zr9Uh-000376-U0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 27 Oct 2015 15:01:15 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34914) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zr9UT-00036e-Vz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Oct 2015 15:01:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zr9UT-0002ey-44 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Oct 2015 15:01:01 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:10189) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zr9UO-0002dK-O4; Tue, 27 Oct 2015 15:00:56 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: A0A1FgA731xV/zCdWxdcgxCEAoVVwwsEAgKBPDwRAQEBAQEBAYEKQQWDXQEBAwFWIxALNBIUGA0kiDcIzyMBAQEHAgEfizqFBQeELQW1BCOCO4FZIoJ4AQEB X-IPAS-Result: A0A1FgA731xV/zCdWxdcgxCEAoVVwwsEAgKBPDwRAQEBAQEBAYEKQQWDXQEBAwFWIxALNBIUGA0kiDcIzyMBAQEHAgEfizqFBQeELQW1BCOCO4FZIoJ4AQEB X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.13,465,1427774400"; d="scan'208";a="171789226" Original-Received: from 23-91-157-48.cpe.pppoe.ca (HELO pastel.home) ([23.91.157.48]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP; 27 Oct 2015 15:00:56 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 672A160039; Tue, 27 Oct 2015 15:00:55 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <83eggg419o.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Tue, 27 Oct 2015 20:25:23 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.181 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:192751 Archived-At: >> >> > Nothing, except that we can point them to the docs and say that they >> >> > live dangerously ;-) >> [...] >> > We are permissive. >> The above two statement are not mutually consistent, IMO. > Why should they be? "Hope for the best, plan for the worst." In the context you wrote it "we are permissive" implies we don't frown on either form. >> > We just want to be consistent in the stuff we generate. >> I'm fine with this. But I object to documenting too precisely the form >> that should be in load-path and then tell people that if they don't do >> that they live dangerously. > OK, I won't tell that. (It was a joke, anyway.) But even if we don't say it explicitly, the change in docstring hints at the fact that this detail matters, whereas it really shouldn't. Stefan