From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 65797@debbugs.gnu.org, joseph@breatheoutbreathe.in
Subject: bug#65797: 29.0.92; func-arity should not return (0 . many) with apply-partially
Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2023 21:20:13 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83fs3owmqq.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvcyysis37.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (message from Stefan Monnier on Fri, 08 Sep 2023 11:52:25 -0400)
> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: Joseph Turner <joseph@breatheoutbreathe.in>, 65797@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2023 11:52:25 -0400
>
> >> This isn't backwards compatible, is it?
> > Neither is what you propose, AFAIU. We are in effect changing a
> > public API in incompatible ways.
>
> Yup, AFAICT there's no way to implement the Texinfo-documented
> behavior reliably.
>
> So some backward-incompatibility is inevitable, unless we decide to
> stick to the current code to be "bug compatible" :-(
I think one of the alternatives you proposed was backward-compatible
(albeit not very elegant). So my vote is for that alternative.
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2023-09-07 7:53 bug#65797: 29.0.92; func-arity should not return (0 . many) with apply-partially Joseph Turner via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-09-07 12:35 ` Mattias Engdegård
2023-09-07 15:11 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
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2023-09-08 18:20 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2023-09-11 16:57 ` Joseph Turner via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-09-11 18:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-09-12 18:30 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-09-08 17:01 ` bug#65797: `buffer-match-p` should not use `func-arity` Philip Kaludercic
2023-09-12 18:28 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-09-13 21:50 ` Philip Kaludercic
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2023-09-19 8:34 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-09-19 10:06 ` Dmitry Gutov
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2023-09-19 16:13 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-10-08 9:10 ` Joseph Turner via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
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2023-10-09 21:40 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
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2023-10-13 15:57 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-10-14 6:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-14 14:31 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-10-15 6:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-16 16:33 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-10-16 20:16 ` Joseph Turner via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-10-19 12:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-21 2:52 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-09-15 0:45 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-09-15 1:38 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
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2023-09-15 17:54 ` Joseph Turner via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
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