From: Ralf Angeli <angeli@caeruleus.net>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: dann@ics.uci.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: declare-function in files from Gnus (hashcash.el, imap.el)
Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2006 00:58:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ac27w4lz.fsf@neutrino.caeruleus.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1IybxG-0000AT-DD@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Sat\, 01 Dec 2007 18\:41\:02 -0500")
* Richard Stallman (2007-12-02) writes:
> > `declare-function' has been discussed here at length. It is used to
> > avoid the "unknown function" warnings produced by the byte compiler.
>
> How about putting stuff like that in some sort of header file instead
> of polluting the package code?
>
> No way! I do not want to greatly increase in the number of files.
Then one could put all declarations into a single file.
But the point here is that people should take care when changing code
of packages which are supposed to work with other Emacs versions than
the one they are integrated in.
--
Ralf
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-01 23:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-30 22:56 declare-function in files from Gnus (hashcash.el, imap.el) Reiner Steib
2007-11-30 23:27 ` Glenn Morris
2007-12-01 18:35 ` Reiner Steib
2007-12-01 18:54 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2007-12-01 20:35 ` Glenn Morris
2007-12-01 20:40 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2007-12-01 21:50 ` Glenn Morris
2007-12-01 9:15 ` Ralf Angeli
2007-12-01 16:34 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2007-12-01 17:09 ` Ralf Angeli
2007-12-01 20:44 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2006-12-02 0:01 ` Ralf Angeli
2007-12-02 0:33 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-12-01 23:41 ` Richard Stallman
2006-12-01 23:58 ` Ralf Angeli [this message]
2007-12-02 21:26 ` Richard Stallman
2006-12-02 21:59 ` Ralf Angeli
2007-12-02 22:37 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2007-12-03 18:28 ` Ralf Angeli
2007-12-03 23:12 ` Reiner Steib
2007-12-03 23:40 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2007-12-05 20:35 ` Reiner Steib
2007-12-05 21:01 ` Glenn Morris
2007-12-08 19:42 ` Reiner Steib
2007-12-08 22:58 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2007-12-09 2:20 ` Glenn Morris
2007-12-09 20:10 ` Austin Frank
2007-12-09 21:22 ` Reiner Steib
2007-12-04 16:55 ` Richard Stallman
2007-12-02 20:07 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-01-05 13:13 ` Patch for focus-frame use in RefTeX (was: declare-function in files from Gnus (hashcash.el, imap.el)) Ralf Angeli
2007-12-01 21:42 ` syncing from Emacs to Gnus [was Re: declare-function in files from Gnus (hashcash.el, imap.el)] Glenn Morris
2007-12-01 23:22 ` syncing from Emacs to Gnus Reiner Steib
2007-12-02 14:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-12-02 18:39 ` Richard Stallman
2007-12-03 2:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-12-03 18:43 ` Richard Stallman
2007-12-03 18:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-12-06 2:12 ` Richard Stallman
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