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Re: Don't complain about changed file when it hasn't changed


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Don't complain about changed file when it hasn't changed
Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2016 16:49:47 +0300

> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2016 14:06:02 -0400
> 
> >> So if you want to "update the doc" here, we'd have to actually state
> >> what the standard definition does (we currently don't do actually that).
> 
> > ... indeed we should state that, because otherwise a naïve user will
> > not understand how come she lost this nice feature by just replacing a
> > function that is supposed to ask a question and be done.
> 
> OK, I can do that.

Thanks.

> Of course, this begs another question: should the new test be in
> ask-user-about-supersession-threat or in its caller?  I placed it in
> ask-user-about-supersession-threat for no very good reason (tho I don't
> see any strong reasons to move it to the caller either).

My preference would be to have the test in the caller, because I doubt
that anyone who replaces that function would want to lose the test.
But that preference is not very strong.



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