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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
Cc: mattiase@acm.org, stefankangas@gmail.com, 56641@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#56641: Deprecate `lsh`
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2022 14:24:50 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <838room3gd.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877d48bhch.fsf@yahoo.com> (message from Po Lu on Wed, 20 Jul 2022 11:20:14 +0800)

> From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
> Cc: stefankangas@gmail.com,  mattiase@acm.org,  56641@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2022 11:20:14 +0800
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > If it's rare enough (as it should be), I don't see the annoyance.  Am
> > I missing something?
> 
> It might be rare, but there's nothing wrong with using lsh for its
> intended purpose, which is handling negative numbers correctly in
> several different situations.

The point is that people could use lsh because they don't realize they
could use ash instead.  If one really must use lsh, there's always
with-no-warnings, which is IMO fine for the rare situations where it's
needed.

> Byte-compiler warnings are supposed to point out problems.

And this could indeed be a problem: that the programmer is not aware
of a better alternative.

So I don't see a problem with warning in this case, I just don't want
us to pretend this function is "obsolete", because it isn't.





  reply	other threads:[~2022-07-20 11:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-07-19 13:38 bug#56641: Deprecate `lsh` Mattias Engdegård
2022-07-19 13:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-19 14:44   ` Stefan Kangas
2022-07-19 15:40     ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-19 15:53     ` Mattias Engdegård
2022-07-19 16:20       ` Stefan Kangas
2022-07-19 16:38         ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-20  1:25           ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-07-20  2:36             ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-20  3:20               ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-07-20 11:24                 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2022-07-20 11:57                 ` Mattias Engdegård
2022-07-20 12:21                   ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-07-20 12:44                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-20 14:30                     ` Mattias Engdegård
2022-07-21  1:43                       ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-07-21  7:47                         ` Mattias Engdegård
2022-07-23  7:26 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-07-23 10:32   ` Mattias Engdegård
2022-07-23 11:20     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-07-23 13:18       ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-23 13:20         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-07-23 15:42     ` Basil L. Contovounesios via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-07-23 16:51       ` Mattias Engdegård
2022-07-24  3:38         ` Basil L. Contovounesios via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors

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