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From: Stefan Monnier via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 69832@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#69832: 30.0.50; Should `subr-primitive-p` apply to special-forms?
Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2024 15:58:09 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvv85mez60.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86il1m55bk.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 16 Mar 2024 21:45:19 +0200")

>> I can see two ways to fix that:
>> 
>> - Introduce a new type, says `subr-function(-p)` which returns non-nil
>>   if and only if the argument is a built-in primitive *and* a function.
>> 
>> - Change the implementation of `subr-primitive-p` to match its docstring.
>> 
>> The patch below does the second (including changing the only place
>> I found that wants the current semantics.
>> 
>> Comments?  Objections?
>
> Why take the path of a breaking change instead of the non-breaking
> alternative?

- It can be considered as a bug fix (to make the code match its doc).

- If we introduce `subr-function-p`, then `subr-primitive-p` is only
  "useful" at one place any more, and we can trivially rewrite the code to
  avoid it, so we could get rid of it.

- These functions are used very rarely, the majority is in core files,
  and the rest is mostly used to generate human-facing descriptions
  so the risk of breakage is low and the kind of breakage is likely to
  have a low impact.


        Stefan






  reply	other threads:[~2024-03-16 19:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-03-16 19:30 bug#69832: 30.0.50; Should `subr-primitive-p` apply to special-forms? Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-03-16 19:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-03-16 19:58   ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors [this message]
2024-03-16 20:17     ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-03-16 23:08       ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-03-17  6:01         ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-03-17 21:03           ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors

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