Re: emacsclient's option decoding code

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 02:16:20 +0100
> From: "Lennart Borgman" <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>,
>       Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>, address@hidden
> 
> I do not understand this discussion at all, but is there anything
> preventing using a value that has the string "w32" in it instead of
> just ":0.0"?

Yes: it has all of the disadvantages of ":0.0" and none of the
advantages.

The issue is not whether the string is understandable by humans, the
issue is whether existing Lisp code will live with the string better.