From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Stefan Monnier'" <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>, <sds@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: RE: 24.3.50; Use of deprecated ((lambda ...) ...) form
Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2012 08:50:04 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FD95D9C1F934F338FF5BD5B3FAB3443@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvy5ia4vn3.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
> > why is ((lambda...)...) deprecated?
> Why not?
Really? We're now deprecating things without giving any reason?
And instead we need to provide reasons _not_ to deprecate everything?
Deprecation by default?
> > this is one of the oldest lisp constructs!
> Old doesn't make it good.
Does old make it bad? Is everything bad now, by default? No need to say why
something is bad, in order to deprecate it?
This policy or way of proceeding seems quite misguided, if not downright wrong.
But maybe I'm missing something.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-11-09 16:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-11-09 14:12 24.3.50; Use of deprecated ((lambda ...) ...) form Sam Steingold
2012-11-09 15:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-11-09 16:15 ` Paul Eggert
2012-11-09 16:38 ` Sam Steingold
2012-11-09 17:05 ` Glenn Morris
2012-11-09 19:22 ` Sam Steingold
2012-11-09 16:50 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2012-11-09 17:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-11-09 19:43 ` Sam Steingold
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2012-11-10 0:05 Barry OReilly
2012-11-10 1:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-11-10 7:16 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
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