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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Please restore `make-obsolete''s functionality.
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 23:55:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvwrshnc2y.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100726202840.GB2993@muc.de> (Alan Mackenzie's message of "Mon,  26 Jul 2010 20:28:40 +0000")

> Please can we remove this Cleverness?  `make-obsolete' also has to work
> on OLD code (sometimes very old code) written when WHEN was &optional.

It's still optional, although the byte-compiler doesn't know it so
it complains.


        Stefan



  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-07-26 21:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-26 20:28 Please restore `make-obsolete''s functionality Alan Mackenzie
2010-07-26 20:49 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-07-26 21:27   ` Alan Mackenzie
2010-07-26 21:46 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2010-07-27 19:45   ` Alan Mackenzie
2010-07-26 21:55 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2010-07-27 19:41   ` Alan Mackenzie
2010-07-27 21:38     ` Stefan Monnier
2010-07-28 17:29       ` Alan Mackenzie
2010-07-30  8:58         ` Stefan Monnier

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