From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] * etc/NEWS: Document incompatibilities introduced by record types.
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2017 09:12:44 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvefnxtna2.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.devel@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: E1ePG2e-0005aX-PL@fencepost.gnu.org
>> I'm just really puzzled by all the strong reactions for a problem that's
>> so% hypothetical,
> It is not hypothetical. I am sure people will define such types in
> their code, and get screwed.
[ Just because you're convinced it will happen doesn't make it less
hypothetical. AFAICT it has never happened so far. ]
The 20 years of experience with cl.el's defstruct, plus the 10 years of
experience with eieio's defclass seem to disagree.
> Since we agree that defining these symbols as record types should not
> be done, let's make it easier for programmers to avoid doing that.
I won't get in the way of someone else doing that, *as long as* it's
done via compilation-time (or even load-time) checks rather than
run-time checks (i.e. not in make-record).
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-12-14 14:12 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
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 [this message]
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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