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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: Christopher Wellons <wellons@nullprogram.com>,
	31641@debbugs.gnu.org, Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com>
Subject: bug#31641: 26.1; iter-do variable not left unused warning
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 2021 10:03:53 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvy2g27e3w.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <875z36nbex.fsf@gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Fri, 05 Feb 2021 09:53:10 +0100")

> If I'm reading that correctly, that does seem like more obvious
> semantics, but is it too late to change this now?  I'm not sure how much
> generator.el is used in the wild yet...

The change in semantics is fairly subtle (e.g. Common-Lisp allows both
choices for the similar choice of behavior in `dotimes` and `dolist`),
so it's rather unlikely to break existing code, IMO (and I think the
likelihood would be higher if the change were in the other direction).


        Stefan






  reply	other threads:[~2021-02-05 15:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-05-29 13:12 bug#31641: 26.1; iter-do variable not left unused warning Christopher Wellons
2018-05-29 22:13 ` Noam Postavsky
2021-02-04 10:05   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-04 16:36     ` Stefan Monnier
2021-02-05  8:53       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-05 15:03         ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2021-02-06 10:31       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-05 17:12     ` Basil L. Contovounesios

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