From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 18:26:02 +0200 Message-ID: References: <561A19AB.5060001@cumego.com> <87io6dl0h0.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87lhb82qxc.fsf@gmail.com> <878u78b3hg.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87h9lwyv33.fsf@gmail.com> <561C368F.6010306@cs.ucla.edu> <87oag3xb2i.fsf@gmail.com> <20151013114630.GA4613@acm.fritz.box> <87io6bou1j.fsf@gmail.com> <87si5f0x2s.fsf@openmailbox.org> <878u7696yc.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1444753668 24258 80.91.229.3 (13 Oct 2015 16:27:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 16:27:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Paul Eggert , Mathieu Lirzin , Emacs developers , Oleh Krehel , John Yates To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 13 18:27:39 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 1Zm2QH-0003D7-1Q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Oct 2015 18:27:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37298 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zm2QG-00083i-3D for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Oct 2015 12:27:32 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39745) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zm2Oz-0007ns-GK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Oct 2015 12:26:18 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zm2Oy-0001V9-Mx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Oct 2015 12:26:13 -0400 Original-Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:50673) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zm2Ot-0001Qv-0v; Tue, 13 Oct 2015 12:26:07 -0400 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at test-mx.suse.de Original-Received: from relay1.suse.de (charybdis-ext.suse.de [195.135.220.254]) by mx2.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93970ABCC; Tue, 13 Oct 2015 16:26:01 +0000 (UTC) X-Yow: Th' PINK SOCK... soaking... soaking... soaking... Th' PINK SOCK... washing... washing... washing... Th' PINK SOCK... rinsing... rinsing... rinsing... In-Reply-To: <878u7696yc.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (David Kastrup's message of "Tue, 13 Oct 2015 16:30:35 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x (no timestamps) [generic] X-Received-From: 195.135.220.15 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:191495 Archived-At: David Kastrup writes: > I don't get the preoccupation with the order and the talk about > "historical irregularity". I can perfectly well write > > unsigned const int extern x; > > and that is a well-formed declaration. Though obsolescent. (6.11.5) Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SUSE Labs, schwab@suse.de GPG Key fingerprint = 0196 BAD8 1CE9 1970 F4BE 1748 E4D4 88E3 0EEA B9D7 "And now for something completely different."