From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: master 5b962a7: Avoid double argument evaluation in vc-call macro Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2021 17:20:24 +0300 Message-ID: <83lf3qxb6f.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20210921115002.28282.50636@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <20210921115004.44D90200AF@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <87czp2ccri.fsf@gmx.de> <877dfaf3e9.fsf@tcd.ie> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="7683"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: contovob@tcd.ie, michael.albinus@gmx.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dmitry Gutov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 21 16:21:36 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mSgeO-0001l8-3J for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 21 Sep 2021 16:21:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56060 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mSgeN-0008C0-2F for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 21 Sep 2021 10:21:35 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:46094) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mSgdL-0007Nk-Dx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Sep 2021 10:20:32 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:52488) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mSgdJ-0005fy-B4; Tue, 21 Sep 2021 10:20:29 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:1504 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mSgdI-0005K0-RQ; Tue, 21 Sep 2021 10:20:29 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Dmitry Gutov on Tue, 21 Sep 2021 16:52:43 +0300) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:275244 Archived-At: > From: Dmitry Gutov > Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2021 16:52:43 +0300 > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > On 21.09.2021 16:45, Basil L. Contovounesios wrote: > > Lars argued that the "buggy" behaviour was explicitly documented for a > > long time, so it's safer to announce it:https://bugs.gnu.org/50690#8 > > > > I was happy to oblige to tickle my megalomania and because I'm just a > > poor student who can't afford to be sued. > > I think the NEWS entry could be useful for someone who comes later and > writes code which needs to be compatible with previous versions of > Emacs: if double evaluation is a problem for them, they could at least > find the NEWS entry, to see when it was fixed. > > We don't usually do that for bug fixes, but since this was the > documented behavior... *shrug* Yes, it's borderline, so I see no harm in having that in NEWS.