Re: yes-or-no-p prompt conditionally broken in master?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Wolfgang Jenkner <address@hidden>
> Cc: Dmitry Gutov <address@hidden>,  address@hidden,  address@hidden,  
> address@hidden,  address@hidden
> Date: Fri, 04 Sep 2015 14:29:57 +0200
> 
> FWIW, I don't, but I've been aware of this trick for a long time as part
> of the emacs folklore (when I search for yes-or-no-p, DuckDuckGo
> suggests the emacs wiki page[*], which mentions it, right after some
> mirror of the Common Lisp Hyperspec)
> 
> So, IMHO, you are right in general, of course, that emacs developers
> can't guarantee that such tricks will always work, but I don't think
> that it would make sense to break user expectations in this particular
> case.

I'm not going to break it just for the joy of breaking it, but if
there's a good reason to change one of the APIs, we shouldn't back off
just because of this trick.  Especially if we provide an alternative
method for doing the same (which is what is being discussed now).