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bug#73853: 31.0.50; Should and-let* become a synonym for when-let*?
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Sean Whitton |
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bug#73853: 31.0.50; Should and-let* become a synonym for when-let*? |
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Sun, 27 Oct 2024 21:10:22 +0800 |
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Hello,
On Sun 27 Oct 2024 at 01:28pm +01, Michael Heerdegen wrote:
> Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de> writes:
>
>> I'm not impatient, other people are. Blaming (for example) Tramp for
>> the compilation warnings in master.
>
> If you are not impatient: please explain why you are sure that this will
> not pop up in, say 18 months, again. Or why it is better to handle this
> corner issue in 7 steps spread over an quarter of a century.
>
> Sorry for the sarcasm, but I miss the weighing up in what you say. Only
> pointing to annoyances counts but doesn't convince me that one solution
> is better than the other.
I don't think this is going to come up again -- or, at least, if someone
brings it up, it will not require us to take any action, except possibly
documentation improvements.
I admire your desire to Do It Right, but the Right Thing does not exist
in a vacuum -- in particular, it is constrained by what was done before.
The right thing here is not to try to reuse these names, because of the
particular way in which they were used before.
--
Sean Whitton
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