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Re: message's docstring
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David Kastrup |
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Re: message's docstring |
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Sun, 12 Nov 2006 13:17:21 +0100 |
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"Juanma Barranquero" <address@hidden> writes:
> On 11/12/06, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> That sounds nonsensical. Shouldn't this be
>> (y-or-n-p (format ...))
>> instead?
>
> Surely yes. But the fact that it did work till now is because message
> returns the message string.
>
> So, either we document it, or document that the result is irrelevant
> (but it certainly doesn't look so, looking at the code).
But we should let ourselves be governed rather by code working as
intended rather than stuff in need of fixing.
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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
Re: message's docstring, Kevin Rodgers, 2006/11/13
Re: message's docstring, Richard Stallman, 2006/11/12