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: Q: while loop in impl of error and user-error Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 17:06:55 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1383080824 26742 80.91.229.3 (29 Oct 2013 21:07:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 21:07:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "T.V. Raman" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 29 22:07:08 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 1VbGVH-0007qk-Mf for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Oct 2013 22:07:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49384 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VbGVH-0006Cs-6R for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Oct 2013 17:07:07 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33082) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VbGV7-0006AL-Ae for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Oct 2013 17:07:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VbGV0-0003mY-2C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Oct 2013 17:06:57 -0400 Original-Received: from relais.videotron.ca ([24.201.245.36]:51062) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VbGUz-0003mT-Uc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Oct 2013 17:06:49 -0400 Original-Received: from ceviche.home ([24.201.53.56]) by VL-VM-MR006.ip.videotron.ca (Oracle Communications Messaging Exchange Server 7u4-22.01 64bit (built Apr 21 2011)) with ESMTP id <0MVG008QS7ZD0R50@VL-VM-MR006.ip.videotron.ca> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Oct 2013 17:06:49 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id EEF1D660AD; Tue, 29 Oct 2013 17:06:55 -0400 (EDT) In-reply-to: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 24.201.245.36 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:164658 Archived-At: > why is the call to signal enclosed in a (while t ...) loop? Can't remember, I think it was just copied from `error'. As for why it was there in `error', I don't know either. We should probably just remove them. Stefan