From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
Cc: monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu
Subject: Re: New function `emacs-version>='
Date: Tue, 06 May 2003 20:05:35 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878ytkpc74.fsf@tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030504015756.777B.LEKTU@terra.es> (Juanma Barranquero's message of "Sun, 04 May 2003 21:15:28 +0200")
>>>>> "Juanma" == Juanma Barranquero <lektu@terra.es> writes:
Juanma> But, honestly: I'm not deadly opposed to emacs-version>=,
Juanma> it's just I think most of the time it's the wrong
Juanma> test. Adding the function amounts to encouraging its use,
Juanma> unless Stefan's idea (or any strong variant) is also
Juanma> implemented.
Then we're basically in agreement.
Christoph Wedler's point about "forward" compatibility when one
implementation or another has an API and the other does not, and might
define it differently is also important. I think cooperation of the
kind that has occurred on `split-string' can reduce the number of such
cases and thus increase the applicability of f?boundp tests, but this
will take time.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-05-06 11:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-05-02 19:55 [Suggestion] New function `emacs-version>=' Wedler, Christoph
2003-05-02 21:00 ` Juanma Barranquero
2003-05-02 21:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-05-02 21:35 ` Juanma Barranquero
2003-05-03 11:12 ` Ehud Karni
2003-05-03 13:54 ` Juanma Barranquero
2003-05-03 16:08 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2003-05-04 19:15 ` Juanma Barranquero
2003-05-06 11:05 ` Stephen J. Turnbull [this message]
2003-05-04 13:04 ` Richard Stallman
2003-05-03 17:48 ` Reiner Steib
2003-05-03 18:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-05-05 13:47 ` sort-coding-systems in 21.3 and RC branch (was: New function `emacs-version>=') Reiner Steib
2003-05-06 7:08 ` Kenichi Handa
2003-05-02 21:16 ` [Suggestion] New function `emacs-version>=' Thien-Thi Nguyen
2003-05-04 13:03 ` Richard Stallman
2003-05-05 12:52 ` Wedler, Christoph
2003-05-05 13:20 ` Juanma Barranquero
2003-05-05 19:11 ` Richard Stallman
2003-05-05 21:59 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-05-06 23:42 ` Istvan Marko
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