From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nick Roberts Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Incompatible change without "warning" Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2005 09:32:14 +1200 Message-ID: <17001.27998.562991.843462@farnswood.snap.net.nz> References: <16997.28602.876638.54728@farnswood.snap.net.nz> <16998.58339.710430.454702@farnswood.snap.net.nz> <87u0m0rz7f.fsf@xs4all.nl> <17000.10926.155798.568572@farnswood.snap.net.nz> <87r7h35eku.fsf@xs4all.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1114205446 27032 80.91.229.2 (22 Apr 2005 21:30:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 21:30:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 22 23:30:43 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DP5iV-0002Y1-LK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Apr 2005 23:29:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DP5nU-0007Gv-RM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Apr 2005 17:34:48 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DP5mv-0006zN-Rp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Apr 2005 17:34:14 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DP5mq-0006vj-R7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Apr 2005 17:34:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DP5mp-0004ul-Ax for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Apr 2005 17:34:07 -0400 Original-Received: from [202.37.101.8] (helo=viper.snap.net.nz) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DP5ng-0002VY-6Z; Fri, 22 Apr 2005 17:35:00 -0400 Original-Received: from farnswood.snap.net.nz (p229-tnt1.snap.net.nz [202.124.110.229]) by viper.snap.net.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71D124AE76A; Sat, 23 Apr 2005 09:32:06 +1200 (NZST) Original-Received: by farnswood.snap.net.nz (Postfix, from userid 501) id 29BC662A99; Fri, 22 Apr 2005 22:32:15 +0100 (BST) Original-To: Lute Kamstra In-Reply-To: <87r7h35eku.fsf@xs4all.nl> X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 22.0.50.20 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:36275 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:36275 > In etc/NEWS you've also added an entry for make-obsolete-variable: > > +++ *** New function make-obsolete-variable to warn that a variable may > be removed at some stage in the future. > > Even though is wasn't documented in the Lisp Manual, > make-obsolete-variable has been part of Emacs since version 19.7. I've removed this entry. I was fooled by defvaralias being new. > Lute. > > > PS. I noticed that make-obsolete isn't documented either. Maybe you > can fix that as well? I'm waiting to see if Richard decides that define-obsolete-function-alias should be added too. These two functions are so similar to the two that I've just documented, externally at least, that I wonder if they could be described somewhere centrally in the Lisp manual i.e a link from the nodes 'Defining Variables' and 'Defining Functions'to one called 'Obsoletion'. Nick