From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juanma Barranquero Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r99829: * help.el (describe-mode): Return nil (for IELM's sake). Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2010 20:23:31 +0200 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1270491984 20479 80.91.229.12 (5 Apr 2010 18:26:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2010 18:26:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 05 20:26:23 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nyr0A-0006Rh-Mj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 Apr 2010 20:26:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46863 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Nyr0A-0007mt-2F for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 Apr 2010 14:26:22 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Nyqxo-0006yM-GK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Apr 2010 14:23:56 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=37594 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Nyqxm-0006xm-Oj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Apr 2010 14:23:55 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nyqxl-0007Je-H5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Apr 2010 14:23:54 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-bw0-f223.google.com ([209.85.218.223]:48174) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nyqxl-0007JT-C0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Apr 2010 14:23:53 -0400 Original-Received: by bwz23 with SMTP id 23so1179962bwz.26 for ; Mon, 05 Apr 2010 11:23:51 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :from:date:received:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type; bh=sYrUj03Yw8gyK89j1CxjMJb7nlUao8LGLezPPWNc/5Q=; b=heHLoT6fp4ENXVcHu1BflTECQe0dlhoDClNmYVe9TE1cSFv3GvmM+EnrdIbHnYCEd2 QAv5FmzYODbeB2wxwIPh8OGElDvtzKDrhyLLV8nTgeqKRkIx5QNNmkkpYeiFWpwEVIBs HehwSnAkhEi8qyPSEhcCP3sBYLEA+JGB6beLY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; b=l+sFcERyMoh1z+rIqYh1ylKTNvZmTEoxGoRuvuikm0nJf0PZtaTSce1pDXfrzcsCwA 2oewRwuaFiZecD1pIENJkgdmiOrlCrrJujuoigW9M0sAG1R/oiKTj+NOfseUNDZWpced f++ilkKI9Bwhh3Oo/rYu621qKVhJdP0SVtG9g= Original-Received: by 10.204.136.15 with HTTP; Mon, 5 Apr 2010 11:23:31 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Original-Received: by 10.204.6.25 with SMTP id 25mr6887355bkx.135.1270491831276; Mon, 05 Apr 2010 11:23:51 -0700 (PDT) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:123217 Archived-At: On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 15:55, Stefan Monnier wrote: > Here's a prime example of what I sent yesterday: if you think about it, > the "for IELM's sake" part of the comment would be very welcome in the > code, so that's where it should be instead of in the ChangeLog. Hm, I'm not sure. I changed it for IELM's sake, but any code that calls the function and returns its result is going to benefit from it. There's nothing *specifically* IEMLy in returning nil. Juanma