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Re: master ff4de1b: Fix quoting style in Lisp comments


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: master ff4de1b: Fix quoting style in Lisp comments
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2021 18:49:12 +0300

> Cc: rms@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, stefan@marxist.se,
>  juri@linkov.net, rudalics@gmx.at, larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
> Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2021 16:07:17 +0300
> 
> > It doesn't matter.  This is a decision we already made, so just saying
> > you don't like it is not good enough.  We need a much stronger reason
> > to reverse previous decisions.
> 
> The cost of backtracking is low, so yes, if people even simply say "we 
> don't like it", it should be changed.

There are a lot of low-cost changes we could do, but I very much hope
we won't do them just because they are low-cost.

> I've listed particular reasons as well, but what does it matter: you 
> ignore those parts of messages.

Because you aren't saying anything new.

> > If you look at the commit log messages, even the latest
> > ones done today, you will see that almost everyone disputes that part.
> 
> This is orthogonal to this discussion.

It is?  Says who?  AFAICS, it is very much part of the discussion,
just read the messages.



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