Re: master 6eeab90632: Don't accept whitespace or hex floats in rgbi: colour specs

[Mattias Engdegård]

6 mars 2022 kl. 14.46 skrev Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>:

> I don't see a corresponding bug report, so please forgive me if I missed
> something here.

It's bug#54263 -- sorry about the omission from the log message.

> If the leading whitespace and hex floats don't cause problems, why not
> keep the ability to understand them?  It could come in handy.

So it might seem, but over-tolerant implementation is generally a mistake. It 
restricts compatibility in the other direction (what worked with Emacs won't 
work elsewhere), restricts future changes and implementations, detects fewer 
user mistakes, and makes documentation and specifications less useful. It's not 
doing the user a service.