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Re: lexical-binding is turned on in more use cases
From: |
Alan Mackenzie |
Subject: |
Re: lexical-binding is turned on in more use cases |
Date: |
Tue, 10 Mar 2020 20:44:26 +0000 |
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Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) |
Hello, Stefan.
On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 16:26:38 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> >> > You haven't answered the question. Why did you not initiate a discussion
> >> > on emacs-devel before committing this patch? emacs-devel is where
> >> > proposals that might or will break things get discussed; not a thread on
> >> > bug-gnu-emacs, where most affected people won't see it.
> >> It doesn't break any*thing*, AFAICT:
> > For crying out loud! My very first post in this thread documented a
> > breakage which actually happened. Please read it.
> Your first post showed that it changed the behavior you got when you use
> `M-:` but it did not break any existing code.
IT BROKE SOMETHING. In particular, it broke my ability to test
something. Please stop your sophistry.
> Usually we qualify this as "change" and not as "breakage".
You might, personally. The rest of us call it breakage when something
which used to work no longer works.
> IOW it's maybe incompatible with your fingers (or your brain/memory) but
> not with existing code.
And you still, for the fourth time of asking, haven't answered the
question of why you failed to discuss this change on emacs-devel. Were
you trying to prevent people like me expressing a view about it?
> Stefan
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
- Re: lexical-binding is turned on in more use cases, (continued)
- Re: lexical-binding is turned on in more use cases, Stefan Monnier, 2020/03/10
- Re: lexical-binding is turned on in more use cases, John Wiegley, 2020/03/11
- Re: lexical-binding is turned on in more use cases, Alan Mackenzie, 2020/03/09
- Re: lexical-binding is turned on in more use cases, Stefan Monnier, 2020/03/09
- Re: lexical-binding is turned on in more use cases, Alan Mackenzie, 2020/03/10
- Re: lexical-binding is turned on in more use cases, Stefan Monnier, 2020/03/10
- Re: lexical-binding is turned on in more use cases, Alan Mackenzie, 2020/03/10
- Re: lexical-binding is turned on in more use cases, Stefan Monnier, 2020/03/10
- Re: lexical-binding is turned on in more use cases,
Alan Mackenzie <=
- Re: lexical-binding is turned on in more use cases, Stefan Monnier, 2020/03/10
- Re: lexical-binding is turned on in more use cases, Richard Stallman, 2020/03/10
- Re: lexical-binding is turned on in more use cases, Stefan Monnier, 2020/03/08