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bug#56393: Actually fix the long lines display bug
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#56393: Actually fix the long lines display bug |
Date: |
Fri, 08 Jul 2022 10:19:14 +0300 |
> From: Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2022 08:25:29 +0200
> Cc: gregory@heytings.org,
> larsi@gnus.org,
> 56393@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> I used the term habitability in the sense of Richard Gabriel in Patterns of
> Software.
>
> https://www.dreamsongs.com/Files/PatternsOfSoftware.pdf
>
> "Habitability is the characteristic of source code that enables programmers,
> coders, bug-fixers, and people
> coming to the code later in its life to understand its construction and
> intentions and to change it comfortably
> and confidently."
>
> (There's of course more...)
>
> From my POV, the names are quite self-explanatory, and in a production
> build these small functions are all inlined by the compiler, so I
> don't think I see a significant downside.
>
> But now, as in this case with the new variable, one has to write a new bset
> function, for no other reason than
> to make matters worse by introducing inconsistency by having some variables
> that habe a bset and other
> that have not... I'm sure you understand what I mean.
Well, that's true, but we have a lot of similarly "un-habitable" stuff
in Emacs anyway. Most of that is due to the aspects of the Emacs
architecture, which is somewhat unique for a C program: automatic GC,
proliferation non-local exits, differences between external and
internal representation of text, C structs that represent Lisp
objects, etc. As a simple example, the rule to use ENCODE_FILE and
DECODE_FILE when calling any file-name-oriented C APIs is one such
convention that newcomers have difficulties with following.
- bug#56393: Actually fix the long lines display bug, (continued)
- bug#56393: Actually fix the long lines display bug, Gerd Möllmann, 2022/07/05
- bug#56393: Actually fix the long lines display bug, Gerd Möllmann, 2022/07/07
- bug#56393: Actually fix the long lines display bug, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/07/07
- bug#56393: Actually fix the long lines display bug, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/07/07
- bug#56393: Actually fix the long lines display bug, Gerd Möllmann, 2022/07/08
- bug#56393: Actually fix the long lines display bug, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/07/08
- bug#56393: Actually fix the long lines display bug, Gerd Möllmann, 2022/07/08
- bug#56393: Actually fix the long lines display bug, Gerd Möllmann, 2022/07/08
- bug#56393: Actually fix the long lines display bug, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/07/08
- bug#56393: Actually fix the long lines display bug, Gerd Möllmann, 2022/07/08
- bug#56393: Actually fix the long lines display bug,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- bug#56393: Actually fix the long lines display bug, Gregory Heytings, 2022/07/07
- bug#56393: Actually fix the long lines display bug, Gerd Möllmann, 2022/07/08
- bug#56393: Actually fix the long lines display bug, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/07/05
- bug#56393: Actually fix the long lines display bug, Gregory Heytings, 2022/07/05
- bug#56393: Actually fix the long lines display bug, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/07/05
- bug#56393: Actually fix the long lines display bug, Gregory Heytings, 2022/07/05
- bug#56393: Actually fix the long lines display bug, Robert Pluim, 2022/07/05
- bug#56393: Actually fix the long lines display bug, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/07/05
- bug#56393: Actually fix the long lines display bug, Gregory Heytings, 2022/07/05
- bug#56393: Actually fix the long lines display bug, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/07/05