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From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Ken Raeburn'" <raeburn@raeburn.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: RE: next emacs version?
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 23:51:33 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AE50D5B659B942D0B96BDA09CA74F667@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <88C42498-ADC0-45DA-B6AC-698F07AACCA2@raeburn.org>

> > But sometimes (esp. if the release cycle is long) I do make 
> > changes (esp. if minor) that allow my code to keep working with the latest 
> > development version. That's sometimes easy when it concerns a
> > new var or fn (but not arity change etc. for a fn).
> 
> advice.el has code for figuring out the arg list of a 
> function, so you can check arity changes.  Though, the 
> easiest way may turn out to be loading advice and calling 
> ad-arglist....

No, I'm not going to go there. If I really have to deal with that, then I'm more
likely to use `condition-case' and try first the newer signature, backing out to
the older signature in case of error. (Obviously, that only works for some kinds
of changes.)





  reply	other threads:[~2010-03-20  6:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-19 11:23 next emacs version? Drew Adams
2010-03-19 13:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-19 17:29   ` Drew Adams
2010-03-19 18:09     ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-19 18:46       ` Drew Adams
2010-03-19 19:02         ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-19 20:02           ` Drew Adams
2010-03-19 21:15             ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-19 21:23               ` Drew Adams
2010-03-20  2:35                 ` Ken Raeburn
2010-03-20  2:39                   ` Lennart Borgman
2010-03-20  3:42                     ` Óscar Fuentes
2010-03-20 15:51                       ` Lennart Borgman
2010-03-20  5:31                     ` Ken Raeburn
2010-03-23  2:05                     ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-03-20  3:38                   ` Drew Adams
2010-03-20  5:31                     ` Ken Raeburn
2010-03-20  6:51                       ` Drew Adams
2010-03-20  5:31                     ` Ken Raeburn
2010-03-20  6:51                       ` Drew Adams [this message]
2010-03-23  2:34                     ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-03-23  5:01                       ` Miles Bader
2010-03-23  5:39                       ` Drew Adams
2010-03-20  3:51                 ` Jason Rumney
2010-03-20  6:47                   ` Drew Adams
2010-03-20  8:39                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-20 14:58                     ` Drew Adams
2010-03-20 16:22                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-20  8:11                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-19 20:55           ` Stefan Monnier
2010-03-19 21:16             ` Drew Adams
2010-03-20 19:10               ` Stefan Monnier
2010-03-20 20:29                 ` Drew Adams
2010-03-20 21:53                   ` Stefan Monnier
2010-03-20 23:09                     ` Drew Adams
2010-03-20 23:26                       ` Drew Adams
2010-03-22  1:22                       ` Stefan Monnier
2010-03-22  7:22                         ` Drew Adams
2010-03-22 13:52                           ` Stefan Monnier
2010-03-21 21:34     ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2010-03-21 23:20       ` Drew Adams
2010-03-19 14:52 ` Chong Yidong

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