Re: Optional argument for `file-local-copy'

[Alan Mackenzie]

Hi, Eli.

On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 04:39:47PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2014 14:08:57 +0000
> > Cc: Michael Albinus <address@hidden>, address@hidden
> > From: Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden>

> > >   REUSE-IF-ALREADY-EXISTS non-nil means return the name of an existing
> > >   local copy of FILE, if FILE's file attributes didn't change since
> >                                                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > >   the last copy operation.

> > "haven't changed", here, since it's expressing a current state.  "didn't
> > change" would be appropriate for referring to a past event.

> It _is_ a past event, by the time this function is called.

Yes, but it is that event's effect on the present which makes the
"present perfect" the right tense.

"haven't changed" is the correct tense here.  Really it is.

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).