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] Enable byte-compile-error-on-wran for error-free files in lisp/ Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2018 18:33:16 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87o9kii4an.fsf@cochranmail.com> <87371tn2qg.fsf@cochranmail.com> <83h8q64pd2.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1519515136 868 195.159.176.226 (24 Feb 2018 23:32:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2018 23:32:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 25 00:32:12 2018 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 1epjIZ-0008NP-FH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 25 Feb 2018 00:32:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52184 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1epjKb-0006Ac-Qy for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 24 Feb 2018 18:34:17 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45508) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1epjJi-00067c-J8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Feb 2018 18:33:25 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1epjJh-0002cD-HZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Feb 2018 18:33:22 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:43233) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1epjJd-0002No-Jd; Sat, 24 Feb 2018 18:33:17 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1epjJc-00043K-OT; Sat, 24 Feb 2018 18:33:16 -0500 In-reply-to: <83h8q64pd2.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Sat, 24 Feb 2018 13:08:09 +0200) 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:223019 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. ]]] > One such case is in ruler.el; search for "unibyte". This use case > could be fixed by adding an optional argument to make-string, which > would force it to always produce a multibyte string -- that's the kind > of alternatives I had in mind, which should help us get rid of these > obsolete functions in the few legitimate uses we still have. How about rewriting that code? That's the way to verify these constructs really are not necessary. -- 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.