From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] * etc/NEWS: Document incompatibilities introduced by record types. Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2017 18:00:49 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20171211213729.41411-1-phst@google.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1513206098 10886 195.159.176.226 (13 Dec 2017 23:01:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2017 23:01:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: =?utf-8?Q?Cl=C3=A9ment?= Pit-Claudel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 14 00:01:31 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ePG1q-0002Q6-F6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 14 Dec 2017 00:01:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38141 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ePG1x-0007Ln-If for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Dec 2017 18:01:37 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48004) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ePG1F-0007Lf-TR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Dec 2017 18:00:54 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ePG1E-0002iP-No for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Dec 2017 18:00:53 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:44467) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ePG1C-0002dm-Ne; Wed, 13 Dec 2017 18:00:50 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ePG1B-0003ol-Nf; Wed, 13 Dec 2017 18:00:49 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from =?utf-8?Q?Cl=C3=A9ment?= Pit-Claudel on Tue, 12 Dec 2017 14:13:18 -0500) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:221031 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] Does 'make-record' verify that the symbol is defined as a record type? If so, then if attempts to define a record type called 'integer' or 'hash-table' give an error and don't define it, the pitfall will be closed off. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See https://stallman.org/skype.html.