Re: libnettle/libhogweed WIP

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

> And by the time that carelessness bites the user, it'll be a lot more
> difficult to track down its source and fix it, because the
> misunderstanding will have carried over various parts of the design of
> his code.  Lars understands this very well because Gnus's code is full
> of such problems.

Indeed.  Even trivial things like forwarding files drifts irregularly
between states of "works now" and "destroys your files" as Gnus fights
and tries to work with the ever-changing Emacs DWIM machinery.

What's right for interactive use are often not the correct primitives
for implementing protocols.  But if you have predictable primitives, you
can make Emacs DWIM interactively.

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