From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, ich@frank-schmitt.net
Subject: Re: Incompatible change without "warning"
Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:15:48 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1DPNIK-0007Q3-N4@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17000.13278.865098.49756@farnswood.snap.net.nz> (message from Nick Roberts on Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:14:38 +1200)
For completeness, I guess there should be one for functions too.
We don't add features to Emacs "for completeness".
That is not enough reason.
I see XEmacs has
define-obsolete-function-alias so we could do:
Compatibility adds an additional reason.
So please add define-obsolete-function-alias.
Please give it arguments compatible with XEmacs.
Or we could combine the two e.g
(defmacro define-obsolete-alias (new aliased
Since this does not provide compatibility,
it is not as good. Please don't do this.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-23 16:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-04-19 14:48 Incompatible change without "warning" Frank Schmitt
2005-04-19 19:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-04-19 20:53 ` Nick Roberts
2005-04-19 21:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-04-19 22:10 ` Kevin Rodgers
2005-04-20 14:57 ` Richard Stallman
2005-04-20 23:21 ` Nick Roberts
2005-04-21 14:17 ` Lute Kamstra
2005-04-21 22:35 ` Nick Roberts
2005-04-22 9:46 ` Lute Kamstra
2005-04-22 21:32 ` Nick Roberts
2005-04-23 7:17 ` Lute Kamstra
2005-04-23 7:31 ` David Kastrup
2005-04-23 19:25 ` Lute Kamstra
2005-04-23 8:10 ` Nick Roberts
2005-04-23 9:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-04-23 19:27 ` Lute Kamstra
2005-04-21 19:56 ` Richard Stallman
2005-04-21 23:14 ` Nick Roberts
2005-04-21 23:56 ` Lute Kamstra
2005-04-23 16:15 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2005-04-26 9:15 ` Nick Roberts
2005-04-26 21:06 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-04-26 21:35 ` Nick Roberts
2005-04-26 21:45 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <20050430231856.CE9369F511@mirror.positive-internet.com>
2005-05-01 3:50 ` Nick Roberts
2005-05-01 12:07 ` Richard Stallman
2005-05-01 14:06 ` Nick Roberts
2005-05-01 15:18 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-05-01 23:39 ` Richard Stallman
2005-05-02 2:28 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-05-01 18:57 ` Richard Stallman
2005-05-01 21:18 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-05-01 18:57 ` Richard Stallman
2005-05-01 18:57 ` Richard Stallman
2005-05-01 22:43 ` Nick Roberts
2005-05-02 7:38 ` David Kastrup
2005-05-02 22:55 ` Nick Roberts
2005-05-03 4:31 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-05-03 7:17 ` David Kastrup
2005-05-04 22:04 ` Richard Stallman
2005-05-03 17:12 ` Richard Stallman
2005-05-02 23:40 ` Richard Stallman
2005-05-02 15:21 ` Richard Stallman
2005-04-20 14:57 ` Richard Stallman
2005-04-19 21:35 ` Nick Roberts
2005-04-20 23:14 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-04-21 0:56 ` Nick Roberts
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