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From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Stefan Monnier'" <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>,
	"'Eli Zaretskii'" <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 11348@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#11348: 24.0.95; TAB-completion in shell-command produces d:\/foo on MS-Windows
Date: Mon, 7 May 2012 08:44:53 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <A9A9BB1280B34A09BFB9E2625025253E@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv397cuicj.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>

> > (Btw, what's the purpose of using eval-when-compile here?)
> 
> To avoid calling `concat' at run-time (especially within the loop).
> In older Emacsen, `concat' was marked as pure so the 
> byte-compiler would evaluate it at compile-time, but someone
> complained that it's not strictly correct because he wanted that
> (concat <foo>) is not `eq' to (concat <foo>).  I actually think
> this change was a mistake and would rather mark `concat' as pure again.

That sounds like the kind of explanation that would help readers as a comment in
the code.  If someone as attentive as Eli has to ask this then it might not hurt
to inform readers generally.

(Ignore my suggestion if inappropriate - I'm not following the thread etc.)






  reply	other threads:[~2012-05-07 15:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-26 11:09 bug#11348: 24.0.95; TAB-completion in shell-command produces d:\/foo on MS-Windows Eli Zaretskii
2012-05-04  7:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-05-04 14:29   ` Chong Yidong
2012-05-04 14:54     ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-05-04 15:07       ` Drew Adams
2012-05-04 15:36       ` Chong Yidong
2012-05-04 15:02     ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-05-04 15:46       ` Chong Yidong
2012-05-04 17:01         ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-05-04 17:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-05-04 18:15   ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-05-04 23:32     ` Stefan Monnier
2012-05-05  0:22       ` Drew Adams
2012-05-05 12:47       ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-05-05  4:20     ` Stefan Monnier
2012-05-05  6:33       ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-05-07  8:01         ` Chong Yidong
2012-05-07 17:40           ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-05-07 15:27         ` Stefan Monnier
2012-05-07 15:44           ` Drew Adams [this message]
2012-05-07 16:11           ` Chong Yidong
2012-05-08  0:27             ` Stefan Monnier
2012-05-08 18:56               ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-05-09 17:22                 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-05-09 18:07                   ` Eli Zaretskii

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