From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: 24.3.50; Use of deprecated ((lambda ...) ...) form Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2012 12:54:10 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87390ieug9.fsf@gnu.org> <4FD95D9C1F934F338FF5BD5B3FAB3443@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1352483667 19757 80.91.229.3 (9 Nov 2012 17:54:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2012 17:54:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: sds@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Drew Adams" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 09 18:54:37 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TWsmq-00025O-MV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 09 Nov 2012 18:54:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46696 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TWsmh-0000h2-En for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 09 Nov 2012 12:54:27 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:37612) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TWsmY-0000LF-V7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Nov 2012 12:54:20 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TWsmY-0003Ou-30 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Nov 2012 12:54:18 -0500 Original-Received: from chene.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.20]:38096) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TWsmS-0003IU-MT; Fri, 09 Nov 2012 12:54:12 -0500 Original-Received: from faina.iro.umontreal.ca (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by chene.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id qA9HsAeP008580; Fri, 9 Nov 2012 12:54:10 -0500 Original-Received: by faina.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id B3FB1B4278; Fri, 9 Nov 2012 12:54:10 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <4FD95D9C1F934F338FF5BD5B3FAB3443@us.oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Fri, 9 Nov 2012 08:50:04 -0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2 (gnu/linux) X-NAI-Spam-Flag: NO X-NAI-Spam-Threshold: 5 X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 1 Rules triggered RV4396=0 X-NAI-Spam-Version: 2.2.0.9309 : core <4396> : streams <854618> : uri <1263854> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 132.204.246.20 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:154770 Archived-At: >> > why is ((lambda...)...) deprecated? >> Why not? > Really? We're now deprecating things without giving any reason? I did give a reason: because there doesn't seem to be any reason not to. > And instead we need to provide reasons _not_ to deprecate everything? Welcome to life. Stefan