Re: Unbalanced change hooks (part 2) [Documentation fix still remaining]

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> From: Daniel Colascione <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2016 19:27:37 -0700
> 
> I think we fundamentally disagree about how rarity affects bug important:

We've seen such fundamental disagreements before, so it's nothing new.

> You: "This bug is rare. Cool. We don't have to worry about it much."
> Me: "This bug is rare. That's awful. That means that people won't hit 
> this bug until it causes some horrible, non-reproducible problem."

When the fix is risky and touches code that affects almost everything
in Emacs, my method is much less likely to break important
functionality for the benefit of rare cases that can be worked around
or solved elsewhere.