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29.1; "docstring wider than 80 characters" when there is no docstring

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From: Damien Cassou <damien <at> cassou.me>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 65790 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#65790: 29.1; "docstring wider than 80 characters" when
 there is no docstring
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2023 11:30:10 +0200

Hi Eli,

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
> How else will we/you know there's a potential problem there?


my opinion is that if more than 80 characters in a docstring is a
problem then the macro should make sure not to generate one.


> If you think you can do nothing about this problem, just ignore the
> warning.  It's just a warning.


I hate warnings: either a problem is important and I want the build to
fail or there is no problem and I don't want to see anything. If I let
warnings exist then the ones I want to ignore will slowly be too
numerous for me to notice those I would like to fix.

This is why in my tool chain (makel) I'm always setting
`byte-compile-error-on-warn' to t and I do similar things in non
elisp-projects.


This is just my opinion.

Best

-- 
Damien Cassou

"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another without
losing enthusiasm." --Winston Churchill

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