On Tue, Dec 05 2006, Richard Stallman wrote:
> > What about providing an option and keep the current recursive as
> > default? See the patch below (`gnus-sort-threads-loop' is your
> > function).
>
> I think this is a good approach.
>
> Why do we want to keep the recursive version?
> Why add an option?
>
> We know that the loop works, so let's just use that.
Well, the recursion is well tested (part of Gnus at least since 1997)
with only _two_ reported problems with it over all those years
(i.e. the situation when the recursion fails is *very rare*). The new
function has been tested in practice only by two persons. I wouldn't
feel comfortable to change such an important function so shortly
before the Emacs release without providing a simple way back in case
of problem with the loop implementation.
Bye, Reiner.
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