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bug#19208: replace-match unhelpful error message
From: |
Andreas Schwab |
Subject: |
bug#19208: replace-match unhelpful error message |
Date: |
Sun, 04 Aug 2019 11:18:17 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.2.90 (gnu/linux) |
On Aug 03 2019, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
> I learned Leibniz conditionals from the late Val Schorre, who was *really*
> good at programming and programming style: Knuth credits Schorre with the
> invention of goto-less programming in the early 1960s. When I redid your
> patch as a Leibniz conditional, I instantly spotted the bug that it
> introduced. You might give Leibniz conditionals a try, as they help make
> code more readable and reliable when checking for range errors or
> overflow.
Perhaps those that need that construct are not good enough to cope with
natural languages.
Andreas.
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"And now for something completely different."
- bug#19208: replace-match unhelpful error message, (continued)
- bug#19208: replace-match unhelpful error message, Noam Postavsky, 2019/08/03
- bug#19208: replace-match unhelpful error message, Andreas Schwab, 2019/08/04
- bug#19208: replace-match unhelpful error message, Noam Postavsky, 2019/08/04
- bug#19208: replace-match unhelpful error message, Andreas Schwab, 2019/08/04
- bug#19208: replace-match unhelpful error message, Paul Eggert, 2019/08/04
- bug#19208: replace-match unhelpful error message, Andreas Schwab, 2019/08/04
- bug#19208: replace-match unhelpful error message, Richard Stallman, 2019/08/04
- bug#19208: replace-match unhelpful error message, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2019/08/04
bug#19208: replace-match unhelpful error message,
Andreas Schwab <=