From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Mackenzie Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Please restore `make-obsolete''s functionality. Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 19:45:17 +0000 Message-ID: <20100727194517.GB2280@muc.de> References: <20100726202840.GB2993@muc.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1280259265 29436 80.91.229.12 (27 Jul 2010 19:34:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 19:34:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dan Nicolaescu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 27 21:34:23 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Odpuu-0003zr-Jg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 27 Jul 2010 21:34:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53864 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Odpuu-0002bs-1c for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:34:20 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=47252 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Odpum-0002bA-SH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:34:13 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Odpul-0006iY-Ot for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:34:12 -0400 Original-Received: from colin.muc.de ([193.149.48.1]:2674 helo=mail.muc.de) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Odpul-0006iJ-Dq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:34:11 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 18895 invoked by uid 3782); 27 Jul 2010 19:34:10 -0000 Original-Received: from acm.muc.de (pD9E52785.dip.t-dialin.net [217.229.39.133]) by colin2.muc.de (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Tue, 27 Jul 2010 21:34:09 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 3374 invoked by uid 1000); 27 Jul 2010 19:45:17 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.1.5 (Fettercairn) X-Primary-Address: acm@muc.de X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: FreeBSD 4.6-4.9 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:127885 Archived-At: Hi, Dan, On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 05:46:31PM -0400, Dan Nicolaescu wrote: > Alan Mackenzie writes: > > Hi, Emacs, > > In the definition of `make-obsolete' (in > > .../lisp/emacs-list/run-byte.el), the third parameter WHEN is &optional. > > At least it was until somebody changed the interactive form to make WHEN > > mandatory, on the pretext that "New code should always provide the `when' > > argument.". > byte-run.el still says: > (defun make-obsolete (obsolete-name current-name &optional when) It does. The next form after this defun, `set-advertised-calling-convention' hides the &optional. -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).