From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Incompatible change without "warning" Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 18:04:31 -0400 Message-ID: References: <16997.28602.876638.54728@farnswood.snap.net.nz> <16998.58339.710430.454702@farnswood.snap.net.nz> <17000.13278.865098.49756@farnswood.snap.net.nz> <17006.1736.406738.121947@farnswood.snap.net.nz> <20050430231856.CE9369F511@mirror.positive-internet.com> <17012.21023.433350.503716@farnswood.snap.net.nz> <17012.57973.677404.342871@farnswood.snap.net.nz> <17013.23443.440554.608805@farnswood.snap.net.nz> <858y2yulfp.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <17014.45052.964670.675332@farnswood.snap.net.nz> <85zmvckcbo.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1115254512 5154 80.91.229.2 (5 May 2005 00:55:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 00:55:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: nickrob@snap.net.nz, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 05 02:55:09 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DTUdw-0006f6-AR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 May 2005 02:55:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DTUlL-00061y-VQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 May 2005 21:02:47 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DTSV8-00065Z-0G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 May 2005 18:37:54 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DTSV3-00062r-ME for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 May 2005 18:37:51 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DTSV3-00062k-Hj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 May 2005 18:37:49 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DTS4A-0007JH-4q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 May 2005 18:10:02 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1DTRyp-0006Cs-Lk; Wed, 04 May 2005 18:04:31 -0400 Original-To: David Kastrup In-reply-to: <85zmvckcbo.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (message from David Kastrup on Tue, 03 May 2005 09:17:47 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:36687 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:36687 There is probably no sense in declaring a variable an obsolete alias if it does not even work! I agree. I think we should add a compatibility layer with the old interface (can't be much more than three lines or so) that we'll remove with 23.1 or so. If a compatibility layer can be added, so as to make the old names work, that would indeed be a good thing to do.