GNU bug report logs - #60467
30.0.50; primitive-undo: Changes to be undone by function different from announced

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Message #86 received at 60467 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Gregory Heytings <gregory <at> heytings.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 60467 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, acm <at> muc.de, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>,
 yantar92 <at> posteo.net
Subject: Re: bug#60467: 30.0.50; primitive-undo: Changes to be undone by
 function different from announced
Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2023 18:16:07 +0000

>> Well, I hope this tricky code will be replaced by the non-tricky code I 
>> proposed, in which none of these obscurities exist... ;-)
>
> My hope is that we can just remove the timestamp special case, in which 
> case we can keep the current code mostly unchanged.
>

Then our hopes are different.  What's wrong exactly with replacing a piece 
of code that requires a long discussion with question marks everywhere to 
be understood by a piece of well-documented code that is much more 
readable and "evidently" does what it is supposed to do?

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