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30.0.50; Jokes in GNUS manual

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From: No Wayman <iarchivedmywholelife <at> gmail.com>
To: 61325 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#61325: 30.0.50; Jokes in GNUS manual
Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2023 15:02:05 -0500

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I feel like this discussion is easily solved by a technical means.
What we need is an embedded document mark-up language in order for 
documentation authors to formally indicate where they are joking. 
We then define an alist of "harm categories" which users can 
register themselves with.
Before documentation is printed, the "harmfulness coefficient" is 
determined for a particular user. If it is above their 
"harmfulness threshold", we display a less offensive joke (defined 
in a separate, localized user option).

See the attached library, joke.el, which solves 99% of the 
problem.
An example usage:

#+begin_src emacs-lisp
(defconst joke-test-text
 "A closure is a function that also carries a record of the 
 lexical
environment that existed when the function was defined. When it is 
invoked, any
lexical variable references within its definition use the retained 
lexical
environment. In all other respects, closures behave much like 
ordinary
functions; in particular, they can be called in the same way as 
ordinary
functions. Speaking of which:

<joke>Why did the chicken go to Hell? It wasn't braised 
right.</joke>")

(cl-loop for (subject . categories) in '((timmy  . (agoraphobic 
child))
                                        (rachel . (religious 
                                        vegan)))
        collect (cons subject (apply #'joke-harm-by-category 
        joke-test-text
                                     categories)))

;;((timmy (agoraphobic . 0.0)
;;        (child . 12.043010752688172))
;; (rachel (religious . 12.043010752688172)
;;         (vegan . 12.043010752688172)))
#+end_src

Here we can see 12.04% of the above documentation will offend an 
agoraphobic child, such as Timmy. However, it will be doubly 
offensive to a religious vegan, such as Rachel.

If I don't hear any convincing objections within the next couple 
of hours,
I'll merge to emacs-29 branch.

Thanks.

[joke.el (text/plain, attachment)]

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