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From: Sudish Joseph <sj@eng.mindspring.net>
Date: 15 Mar 1997 22:28:12 -0500
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Hrvoje Niksic writes:
> This is exactly the kind of reasoning that breaks a load of stuff in a
> project the size of XEmacs.  IMHO all of our code should be as general

It would be, if it were reasoning that led to the design of a future
feature.  Your original question was asked in the context of 19.15.  I
answered in that context.

> The way you would have it, each change in XEmacs proper would require
> a fix for half of the Lisp code.  Do you volunteer to grep hundreds of
> thousands of lines of elisp to make such fixes?

So, what would you suggest be the code in 19.15?  

-Sudish

