>>>> "David" == David Kastrup
<dak(a)gnu.org> writes:
David> If you bothered reading my reports instead of just crying
David> "it is David again, let us all bash him", then that would
David> be great, thank you.
I did read your report, and I considered your request unreasonably
demanding (see below). It is true I single you out, but I am not
bashing; I'm suggesting that to meet your needs we need a more radical
approach. Ben won't do it, I still might.
Do you have a problem with that?
David> What is so fscking hard about "can return a specifier or
David> nil" or "will either return a valid specifier or throw an
David> error"?
Nothing's hard about that, but that's not what you asked for; you
asked for what errors would it throw. Emacs Lisp does not have a
"throws" keyword; to the best of my knowledge very few functions are
documented as throwing errors at all, let alone what errors they might
throw even though almost all can (except those delibertately designed
to suppress errors).
David> What is eating you people?
Nothing. Both Ben and I in rather different ways treated your report
with complete respect. I'm sorry you don't see it that way.
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