* progmodes/cc-fonts.el (c-font-lock-declarations): Don't overwrite

[gnu-emacs] / etc / DEVEL.HUMOR

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@@ -125,6 +125,8 @@ have escaped John's notice."
 
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+Re: patch for woman (woman-topic-at-point)
+
   "Sorry for the long message.  I wanted to make the problem clear
 also for people not familiar with `woman'."
   "Most hackers, I take?
@@ -134,3 +136,24 @@ without attempting any course of action that requires an advance
 course in divination.
    There'd be quite a sensational market for that, you know."
                                     -- Emilio Lopes and David Kastrup
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+  "[T]here may be a good reason since the code explicitly checks for
+this; see keyboard.c:789 [...]"
+  "I think I understand, but I can't find the code in keyboard.c.  Do
+you really mean 'line 789'?  Of which revision?"
+  "Sorry; by 789, I mean 3262 :-P"
+                                   -- Chong Yidong and Stefan Monnier
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+  "[...] In my opinion, your change does not either increase or
+decrease readability.  It's a tossup."
+  "Uh, setting tem to '', an artificial empty string, in order to have
+j incremented once again before breaking out of the finished loop is
+readable?
+   Is this kind of 'readable' synonymous to 'comprehensible with
+serious effort', reminiscent of mathematicians' use of 'trivial' as
+synonymous with 'provable with serious effort'?"
+                                              -- RMS and David Kastrup