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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] * etc/NEWS: Document incompatibilities introduced by record types.
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2017 17:06:14 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1eOsgo-00062W-6C@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvfu8gvdqm.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.devel@gnu.org> (message from Stefan Monnier on Mon, 11 Dec 2017 22:21:34 -0500)

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  > > Or, could we make type-of return `record-foo` instead of `foo`?

  > It *is* an error.  Just not one we bother to try and detect because it'd
  > imply making everyone pay all the time for the rare idiots who'll try to
  > create such a thing.

If programmers are not supposed to do it, let's detect it and report
an error when they try.  That way, they will know it's an error as
soon as they try, rather than needing to debug it to find out it's an error.



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  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-12-12 22:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-12-11 21:37 [PATCH] * etc/NEWS: Document incompatibilities introduced by record types Philipp Stephani
2017-12-11 22:25 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2017-12-21 16:35   ` Philipp Stephani
2017-12-12  3:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-12-12 19:13   ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2017-12-12 20:45     ` Stefan Monnier
2017-12-13 23:00       ` Richard Stallman
2017-12-14 14:08         ` Stefan Monnier
2017-12-14 22:16           ` Richard Stallman
2017-12-14 23:41             ` Stefan Monnier
2017-12-15 21:25               ` Richard Stallman
2017-12-14 22:17           ` Richard Stallman
2017-12-22 10:06             ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-12-21 17:29       ` Philipp Stephani
2017-12-13 23:00     ` Richard Stallman
2017-12-14 14:07       ` Stefan Monnier
2017-12-12 22:06   ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2017-12-12 22:20     ` Stefan Monnier
2017-12-13 15:41       ` Sam Steingold
2017-12-13 16:30         ` Stefan Monnier
2017-12-13 23:03       ` Richard Stallman
2017-12-14 14:13         ` Stefan Monnier
2017-12-13  1:03     ` Stefan Monnier
2017-12-13  1:12       ` Noam Postavsky
2017-12-13  1:29         ` Stefan Monnier
2017-12-13 17:40           ` Stephen Leake
2017-12-13 23:02           ` Richard Stallman
2017-12-14 14:12             ` Stefan Monnier
2017-12-14 22:16               ` Richard Stallman
2017-12-14 22:16               ` Richard Stallman
2017-12-21 17:34         ` Philipp Stephani
2017-12-21 18:43           ` Stefan Monnier
2017-12-22 18:46             ` Richard Stallman
2017-12-22 19:39               ` [SUSPECTED SPAM] " Stefan Monnier
2017-12-23 14:56                 ` Richard Stallman
2017-12-23 14:56                 ` make-record Richard Stallman
2017-12-23 15:53                   ` make-record Stefan Monnier
2017-12-24 20:35                     ` make-record Richard Stallman
2017-12-26  2:43                       ` make-record Stefan Monnier
2017-12-26 19:41                         ` make-record Richard Stallman
2017-12-12 22:05 ` [PATCH] * etc/NEWS: Document incompatibilities introduced by record types Richard Stallman

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