From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Hendrik Tews <hendrik.tews@kernkonzept.com>
Cc: 45438@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#45438: 27.1; please fix misleading documentation for assoc-delete-all
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2020 23:32:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87blehcyai.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zh21fsb3.fsf@cert.kernkonzept.com> (Hendrik Tews's message of "Fri, 25 Dec 2020 23:13:04 +0100")
Hendrik Tews <hendrik.tews@kernkonzept.com> writes:
> assoc-delete-all was introduced in emacs 26.2, however,
> describe-function says "Probably introduced at or before Emacs
> version 21.1.". Please fix this to report the right version
> number where assoc-delete-all was introduced. With this kind of
> misleading information, it is very difficult to write code that
> is backward compatible to a number of different emacs major
> versions.
Indeed, but Emacs does not have a history of when functions are
introduced -- we only have guesswork. Which is why it says "probably".
assoc-delete-all has a convoluted history -- it was introduced in 1999,
and then renamed to assq-delete-all, before being reintroduced in 2018
again. Here the guesser guesses wrong.
Closing.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-25 22:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-25 22:13 bug#45438: 27.1; please fix misleading documentation for assoc-delete-all Hendrik Tews
2020-12-25 22:32 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2020-12-26 10:28 ` Richard Stallman
2020-12-26 10:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-12-26 21:56 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-12-27 5:38 ` Richard Stallman
2020-12-27 17:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-12-28 5:25 ` Richard Stallman
2020-12-26 21:04 ` Hendrik Tews
2020-12-26 21:17 ` Hendrik Tews
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[not found] ` <<87blehcyai.fsf@gnus.org>
[not found] ` <<E1kt6no-0002VV-Ma@fencepost.gnu.org>
[not found] ` <<834kk8n8a8.fsf@gnu.org>
2020-12-26 18:59 ` Drew Adams
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