Re: Problems with xml-parse-string

[David Kastrup]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden>
>> Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2010 15:11:40 +0200
>> 
>> Chong Yidong <address@hidden> writes:
>> 
>> > You are overselling your case.
>> 
>> I give up.
>
> That's a pity.
>
> Chong, I'd suggest trusting Lars's instincts and experience a bit
> more.  OTOH, if you indeed want to see valid technical arguments for
> his suggestion, you should request the same from the opposite views.
> We should either judge intuition against intuition or specific
> arguments vs specific arguments.  I saw no practical arguments to back
> up the other view, only academic ones.  That's unfair, IMO.

The basic argument was that existing code might be based on that form.
That is not entirely academical.  However, that existing code is not
likely to run unmodified in Emacs Lisp, anyway.

-- 
David Kastrup