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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com>
Cc: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>,
	Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>,
	Noam Postavsky <npostavs@users.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] * etc/NEWS: Document incompatibilities introduced by record types.
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2017 13:43:28 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvr2rodj1z.fsf-monnier+Inbox@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAArVCkQOBik02nc4yMpVYAEF79JcC=T1fmh9RpvjhYrz=vi7zA@mail.gmail.com> (Philipp Stephani's message of "Thu, 21 Dec 2017 17:34:47 +0000")

> My suggestion would be to either at least document this breaking change
> (this patch), or forbid such records,

Hello?  We've been through this discussion enough times, I believe.
I'm absolutely firmly completely totally opposed to such a check in
`make-record`.

Yes, a record of type `integer` or `hash-table` is not allowed.
No, we don't want to enforce this with a check in `make-record`.

> or change the return value in a non-breaking way (such as using
> '(record integer) and "#r(integer)").

Other parts of Emacs rely on the fact that (eq (type-of X) (type-of X)),
so if you want to return cons cells, you'll need to hash-cons them or
something.  And the use of `integer` as record type is incorrect in any
case, so it would add complexity only to handle a situation that's
already incorrect.

You're making a mountain of a mole-hill, really.


        Stefan



  reply	other threads:[~2017-12-21 18:43 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
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 [this message]
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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