From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eric Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: compiler warnings for "unused" method specializers Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2016 12:08:06 -0700 Message-ID: <8737jyhhpl.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: <8737jz251z.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87vawvxxc9.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1476472248 21575 195.159.176.226 (14 Oct 2016 19:10:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2016 19:10:48 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.130014 (Ma Gnus v0.14) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 14 21:10:45 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 1bv7sF-0003bK-Vp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Oct 2016 21:10:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49064 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bv7sE-0006po-Hy for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Oct 2016 15:10:30 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47522) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bv7qP-0005qX-91 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Oct 2016 15:08:38 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bv7qL-0006mK-Tl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Oct 2016 15:08:37 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=51228 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bv7qL-0006l4-N2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Oct 2016 15:08:33 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bv7q8-0004XH-C1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Oct 2016 21:08:20 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 15 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:EzRfeUWZ0lgXvYK8DqA0ULqAscg= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 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:208256 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: >>> So maybe it's not worth adding extra compiler code to handle method >>> specializers, but it would be worth allowing multiple _s? I do like the >>> use of _ to say "this variable intentionally and permanently ignored". >> How about supporting CL-style ignore declarations? >> (defun foo (x) (declare (ignore x)) 1) > > You can already do > > (defun foo (x) (ignore x) 1) If I was willing to do all that typing, I wouldn't have complained about having to prefix all my variable names with an underscore in the first place. :)