From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] * etc/NEWS: Document incompatibilities introduced by record types. Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2017 15:45:59 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20171211213729.41411-1-phst@google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1513111858 15448 195.159.176.226 (12 Dec 2017 20:50:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2017 20:50:58 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 12 21:50:53 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 1eOrVt-0003m5-9G for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 12 Dec 2017 21:50:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60455 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eOrW0-0006XD-I7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 12 Dec 2017 15:51:00 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48410) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eOrVM-0006WW-Ll for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Dec 2017 15:50:21 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eOrVH-0006ZV-Hi for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Dec 2017 15:50:20 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=59884 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eOrVH-0006Xz-14 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Dec 2017 15:50:15 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eOrV5-0001U7-73 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Dec 2017 21:50:03 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 14 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:QwvZcEVbFMfvBXSa2XPOX4ICV6U= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 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:220956 Archived-At: >> e.g. it'd be fine to >> make `cl-defstruct` reject names like `integer` or `hash-table` > That's what I'm suggesting. That sounds good (can be added either to cl-defstruct or to cl-struct-define or both and could use the list of builtin types that's in cl--generic-typeof-types). Moving forward, I'd expect that "types" will get a more first-class presence in Elisp, so you should be able to check if a given type name is already used. Stefan