From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: Pretest begins end-June Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2011 08:25:50 -0700 Message-ID: References: <87y61ojhp4.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4DE60326.8040505@gmx.at> <4DE64788.5060304@gmx.at> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1306977901 28035 80.91.229.12 (2 Jun 2011 01:25:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2011 01:25:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 'Chong Yidong' , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "'Stefan Monnier'" , "'martin rudalics'" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 02 03:24:57 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QRwee-0002kk-ML for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Jun 2011 03:24:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60150 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QRwed-0002AF-Ji for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 01 Jun 2011 21:24:55 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:59641) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QRvO9-00075C-51 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Jun 2011 20:03:50 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QRnJC-0002IL-4l for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Jun 2011 11:28:59 -0400 Original-Received: from rcsinet10.oracle.com ([148.87.113.121]:36325) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QRnJB-0002Hd-SD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Jun 2011 11:26:10 -0400 Original-Received: from rtcsinet22.oracle.com (rtcsinet22.oracle.com [66.248.204.30]) by rcsinet10.oracle.com (Switch-3.4.2/Switch-3.4.2) with ESMTP id p51FPxVo008546 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Wed, 1 Jun 2011 15:26:02 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt358.oracle.com (acsmt358.oracle.com [141.146.40.158]) by rtcsinet22.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p51FPw7T005971 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 1 Jun 2011 15:25:59 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt017.oracle.com (abhmt017.oracle.com [141.146.116.26]) by acsmt358.oracle.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id p51FPqmK012145; Wed, 1 Jun 2011 10:25:52 -0500 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/130.35.178.194) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Wed, 01 Jun 2011 08:25:51 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-reply-to: Thread-Index: Acwgb7NjBgeRZYQzQHioJjhmvxI9cgAABxxw X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6090 X-Source-IP: rtcsinet22.oracle.com [66.248.204.30] X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A090209.4DE65A0A.0068:SCFSTAT5015188,ss=1,fgs=0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 148.87.113.121 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:140041 Archived-At: > > (let ((pop-up-frames t)) (pop-to-buffer buffer)) > > The part I don't understand is why we can't preserve backward > compatibility for such code. It is not just, or even most importantly, about backward compatibility. Being able to determine/regulate the behavior with a dynamic binding is an important feature. This change would apparently remove/limit that possibility.