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From: John Wiegley <jwiegley@gmail.com>
To: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: "Aurélien Aptel" <aurelien.aptel@gmail.com>,
	"Artur Malabarba" <arturmalabarba@gmail.com>,
	"Zack Piper" <zack@apertron.net>,
	"Emacs developers" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>,
	"Kaushal Modi" <kaushal.modi@gmail.com>,
	"Alan Mackenzie" <acm@muc.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix (letrec ((ignore)))
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2015 13:55:33 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2y4cweluy.fsf@newartisans.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878u4w92q2.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (David Kastrup's message of "Mon, 14 Dec 2015 21:47:49 +0100")

>>>>> David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:

> It's awful as far as I'm concerned. But being documented and available for a
> long time, deprecating it is a slow process, starting with undocumenting it
> and giving byte compiler warnings.

We haven't taken that approach with setq/setf, but I'm fine either way. I'm
also willing to leave this one alone until it starts biting someone, since I
imagine letrec is far less commonly used.

-- 
John Wiegley                  GPG fingerprint = 4710 CF98 AF9B 327B B80F
http://newartisans.com                          60E1 46C4 BD1A 7AC1 4BA2



  reply	other threads:[~2015-12-14 21:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-12-11 16:11 [PATCH] Fix (letrec ((ignore))) Zack Piper
2015-12-11 20:08 ` Kaushal Modi
2015-12-12 23:10   ` John Wiegley
2015-12-13  4:08     ` Kyle Meyer
2015-12-13 12:13     ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-12-13 17:41       ` Drew Adams
2015-12-13 22:19         ` Kaushal Modi
2015-12-13 23:05           ` Drew Adams
2015-12-14 18:23       ` John Wiegley
2015-12-14 20:24         ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-12-14 20:25           ` John Wiegley
2015-12-14 20:47             ` David Kastrup
2015-12-14 21:55               ` John Wiegley [this message]
2015-12-15 14:14               ` Alan Mackenzie

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