GNU bug report logs - #55777
[PATCH] Improve documentation of `string-to-multibyte', `string-to-unibyte'

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Richard Hansen <rhansen <at> rhansen.org>

Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2022 06:21:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: patch

Done: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 55777 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Richard Hansen <rhansen <at> rhansen.org>
Cc: 55777 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#55777: [PATCH] Improve documentation of `string-to-multibyte', 
 `string-to-unibyte'
Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2022 10:02:20 +0300

> Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2022 02:20:35 -0400
> From: Richard Hansen <rhansen <at> rhansen.org>
> 
> See attached.

Thanks, but please explain the motivation for these changes.  In
particular, why would we need to describe in a doc string such
intimate details of our current implementation?  If there was some
situation where you needed these details for some Lisp program, please
describe that situation.
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