From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com>
Cc: Robert Cochran <robert-emacs@cochranmail.com>, 23957@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#23957: [PATCH] Make fboundp an alias for symbol-function
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2016 16:35:40 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvlh1638f0.fsf-monnier+bug#23957@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAArVCkRQh2+xA+-Bd_wWPizbbtCoQhaDUWz_49Xo6mEQGhLJ0w@mail.gmail.com> (Philipp Stephani's message of "Tue, 12 Jul 2016 17:40:06 +0000")
> And the docstring of `fboundp' does specify that it returns t (not just
> non-nil), so this is indeed a breaking chance.
> I'd suggest to simply remove the FIXME instead.
FWIW, the reason why I put a FIXME instead of making this change, is
that I wasn't sure indeed exactly how to make such a change.
I expect 99% of the uses of fboundp don't care about the distinction
between t and other non-nil values. And at least 90% of the remaining
1% is probably ill-advised to rely on this distinction. But the benefit
of redefining fboundp as an alias rather than as its own function is
probably too small to justify risking such breakage.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-07-12 20:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-07-12 7:08 bug#23957: [PATCH] Make fboundp an alias for symbol-function Robert Cochran
2016-07-12 16:13 ` Drew Adams
2016-07-12 17:40 ` Philipp Stephani
2016-07-12 17:49 ` Drew Adams
2016-07-12 19:11 ` Robert Cochran
2016-07-12 20:06 ` Drew Adams
2016-07-12 23:02 ` Robert Cochran
2016-07-13 2:14 ` Drew Adams
2016-07-12 19:20 ` Sora Firestorm
2016-07-12 20:10 ` Drew Adams
2016-07-12 20:35 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2016-07-13 5:35 ` Robert Cochran
2016-07-14 22:53 ` Robert Cochran
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