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Re: master a6b5985: Avoid duplicated character classes in rx


From: Adam Porter
Subject: Re: master a6b5985: Avoid duplicated character classes in rx
Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2019 22:20:52 -0600
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.3 (gnu/linux)

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

>> There are hundreds of thousands, probably millions, of lines of Elisp in
>> third-party packages and user configurations in the world.  Removing the
>> return value of `push' would be a breaking change affecting innumerable
>> users.
>
> That's called a straw man argument: no one suggested "removing the
> return value".

In this case, then, not a strawman but a misunderstanding of what was
being proposed.  I thought the return value was being argued against
rather than merely the usage of it.  I'm glad to find that I
misunderstood.  Apologies for the noise.  :)




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