[Emacs-diffs] Changes to emacs/etc/DEVEL.HUMOR,v

[Juanma Barranquero]

CVSROOT:        /cvsroot/emacs
Module name:    emacs
Changes by:     Juanma Barranquero <lektu>      06/11/10 16:56:49

Index: DEVEL.HUMOR
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RCS file: /cvsroot/emacs/emacs/etc/DEVEL.HUMOR,v
retrieving revision 1.2
retrieving revision 1.3
diff -u -b -r1.2 -r1.3
--- DEVEL.HUMOR 9 Oct 2006 16:21:58 -0000       1.2
+++ DEVEL.HUMOR 10 Nov 2006 16:56:49 -0000      1.3
@@ -136,3 +136,24 @@
 course in divination.
    There'd be quite a sensational market for that, you know."
                                     -- Emilio Lopes and David Kastrup
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+  "[T]here may be a good reason since the code explicitly checks for
+this; see keyboard.c:789 [...]"
+  "I think I understand, but I can't find the code in keyboard.c.  Do
+you really mean 'line 789'?  Of which revision?"
+  "Sorry; by 789, I mean 3262 :-P"
+                                   -- Chong Yidong and Stefan Monnier
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+  "[...] In my opinion, your change does not either increase or
+decrease readability.  It's a tossup."
+  "Uh, setting tem to '', an artificial empty string, in order to have
+j incremented once again before breaking out of the finished loop is
+readable?
+   Is this kind of 'readable' synonymous to 'comprehensible with
+serious effort', reminiscent of mathematicians' use of 'trivial' as
+synonymous with 'provable with serious effort'?"
+                                              -- RMS and David Kastrup