From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/53705 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: sigurd@12move.de (Karl =?iso-8859-1?q?Pfl=E4sterer?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Posting styles and negation of rules; proposal of new syntax Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 22:19:01 +0200 Organization: Lemis World Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1060806254 14193 80.91.224.253 (13 Aug 2003 20:24:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 20:24:14 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M2249@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Aug 13 22:24:13 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19n2AG-0006Cl-00 for ; Wed, 13 Aug 2003 22:24:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 19n29Y-0004of-00; Wed, 13 Aug 2003 15:23:28 -0500 Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com ([64.157.176.121]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 19n29U-0004oa-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 13 Aug 2003 15:23:24 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 48496 invoked by alias); 13 Aug 2003 20:23:24 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 48491 invoked from network); 13 Aug 2003 20:23:24 -0000 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org (80.91.224.244) by sclp3.sclp.com with SMTP; 13 Aug 2003 20:23:24 -0000 Original-Received: from news by quimby.gnus.org with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 19n29h-0004dr-00 for ; Wed, 13 Aug 2003 22:23:37 +0200 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: wintendo.pflaesterer.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-Lines: 34 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: p62.246.58.116.tisdip.tiscali.de Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1060806217 17846 62.246.58.116 (13 Aug 2003 20:23:37 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 13 Aug 2003 20:23:37 GMT X-Face: #iIcL\6>Qj/G*F@AL9T*v/R$j@7Q`6#FU&Flg6u6aVsLdWf(H$U5>:;&*>oy>jOIWgA%8w* A!V7X`\fEGoQ[@D'@i^*p3FCC6&Rg~JT/H_*MOX;"o~flADb8^ Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Hamster/2.0.2.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:rJYvure5N+9/zXI/aNs0dVBJWTE= Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:53705 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:53705 On 13 Aug 2003, Simon Josefsson <- jas@extundo.com wrote: > sigurd@12move.de (Karl Pflästerer) writes: >> On 11 Aug 2003, Karl Pflästerer <- sigurd@12move.de wrote: >> [a lot] >> So I see there is absolutely no interest in such a functionality. > What I'm missing is a reason NOT to install it. Is there any? It's IMO (well I'm a bit biased) there is none. > not backwards compatible in any way, is it? I vote for installing it You mean backwards incompatible? Or do we mean the same? There is (there should be) absolutely no problem. It's only a new feature but changes nothing in the meaning of existing rules. > (when the, err, feature heat is over). I also prefer "not" as the > mnemonic; I don't recall seeing ! or ~ used as logical negation in > elisp related situations. Fine. It's only a matter of tase. So at the moment we have 2 votes for `not' (Reiner's and yours). I also prefer `not' but from me only a half vote :-) KP -- The difference between a child and a hacker is the amount he flames about his toys. -- Ed Schwalenberg