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Re: message's docstring


From: David Kastrup
Subject: Re: message's docstring
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2006 13:17:21 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.90 (gnu/linux)

"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.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum




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