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Re: Emacs 25.0.04: Feature Request: Make called-interactively-p's argume
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Richard Stallman |
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Re: Emacs 25.0.04: Feature Request: Make called-interactively-p's argument optional |
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Wed, 29 Jun 2016 16:02:04 -0400 |
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> This is a frequently called function and it is not good design to make
> everyone who has encountered it and read the documentation forever more
> have to add that argument when so many of the use cases would not require
> it.
Maybe there is bad design in this -- in the fact that programmers need
to make this complex choice to avoid giving users bad behavior. Good
design would, I suppose, make the choice unnecessary.
Telling people to ignore the choice, or choose at random, while
the choice is still necessary, would not be better design.
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Dr Richard Stallman
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- Re: Emacs 25.0.04: Feature Request: Make called-interactively-p's argument optional, John Wiegley, 2016/06/28
- Re: Emacs 25.0.04: Feature Request: Make called-interactively-p's argument optional, Glenn Morris, 2016/06/28
- Re: Emacs 25.0.04: Feature Request: Make called-interactively-p's argument optional, Robert Weiner, 2016/06/28
- Re: Emacs 25.0.04: Feature Request: Make called-interactively-p's argument optional, Robert Weiner, 2016/06/28
- Re: Emacs 25.0.04: Feature Request: Make called-interactively-p's argument optional,
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- Re: Emacs 25.0.04: Feature Request: Make called-interactively-p's argument optional, Robert Weiner, 2016/06/29
- RE: Emacs 25.0.04: Feature Request: Make called-interactively-p's argument optional, Drew Adams, 2016/06/29
- Re: Emacs 25.0.04: Feature Request: Make called-interactively-p's argument optional, Robert Weiner, 2016/06/29
- Re: Emacs 25.0.04: Feature Request: Make called-interactively-p's argument optional, Robert Weiner, 2016/06/29
- Re: Emacs 25.0.04: Feature Request: Make called-interactively-p's argument optional, Richard Stallman, 2016/06/30
- Re: Emacs 25.0.04: Feature Request: Make called-interactively-p's argument optional, Clément Pit--Claudel, 2016/06/29
- Re: Emacs 25.0.04: Feature Request: Make called-interactively-p's argument optional, Dmitry Gutov, 2016/06/29
- Re: Emacs 25.0.04: Feature Request: Make called-interactively-p's argument optional, Robert Weiner, 2016/06/29
- Re: Emacs 25.0.04: Feature Request: Make called-interactively-p's argument optional, raman, 2016/06/29
- Re: Emacs 25.0.04: Feature Request: Make called-interactively-p's argument optional, Robert Weiner, 2016/06/30