From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: On removing some obsolete code from subr and core Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2016 22:13:40 +0200 Message-ID: <83lgwvgia3.fsf@gnu.org> References: <878tsznpuq.fsf@udel.edu> <83fun6jpeq.fsf@gnu.org> <20161107003235.GA7843@holos.localdomain> <83ins0hshk.fsf@gnu.org> <20161107042415.GA27319@holos.localdomain> <83bmxriatp.fsf@gnu.org> <20161107200828.GA866@holos.localdomain> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1478549645 31618 195.159.176.226 (7 Nov 2016 20:14:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2016 20:14:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Mark Oteiza Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 07 21:14:02 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1c3qIY-0005C9-A3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Nov 2016 21:13:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56359 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c3qIb-0003TL-Bf for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Nov 2016 15:13:45 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38183) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c3qI5-0003SA-Pk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Nov 2016 15:13:14 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c3qI1-0006F9-A6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Nov 2016 15:13:13 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:41983) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c3qI1-0006F5-6K; Mon, 07 Nov 2016 15:13:09 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:2429 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1c3qI0-0003mZ-Bc; Mon, 07 Nov 2016 15:13:08 -0500 In-reply-to: <20161107200828.GA866@holos.localdomain> (message from Mark Oteiza on Mon, 7 Nov 2016 15:08:28 -0500) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:209263 Archived-At: > Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2016 15:08:28 -0500 > From: Mark Oteiza > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > > I meant what happens if we for some reason need to reinstate some of > > them? > > Partially revert the commit I guess. Would it work to do in Lisp something like (defvar default-FOO (default-value FOO)) ? > perhaps you or someone else know better why the default-FOO > variables might be needed again, or why they were implemented in the > first place. I don't know, maybe someone else does.