From: Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Obsolete functions and variables
Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2008 13:02:36 +1200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <18432.2604.646836.981601@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1JkTKG-0002Nw-HT@fencepost.gnu.org>
> I guess the dangers generally outweigh the advantages but there's not
> much point in marking them obsolete if they're never going to be
> removed.
>
> I think that is incorrect. It is useful to urge people to make their
> code use more modern interfaces regardless of whether we ever delete
> the old ones.
In that case, perhaps the macros should have been called
define-deprecated-variable-alias and define-deprecated-function-alias. The
word obsolete has a pretty clear meaning and is misleading when used in this
way.
--
Nick http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-12 1:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-10 5:02 Obsolete functions and variables Nick Roberts
2008-04-10 10:10 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-04-10 15:31 ` Richard Stallman
2008-04-10 15:43 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-04-10 22:53 ` Nick Roberts
2008-04-10 23:16 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-04-10 23:27 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-04-10 23:45 ` Nick Roberts
2008-04-11 0:21 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-04-11 1:20 ` Mike Mattie
2008-04-11 1:17 ` Mike Mattie
2008-04-11 1:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-04-11 7:26 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-04-12 0:10 ` Richard Stallman
2008-04-12 0:58 ` Sebastian Rose
2008-04-12 1:02 ` Nick Roberts [this message]
2008-04-12 5:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-04-12 10:06 ` Nick Roberts
2008-04-12 13:38 ` Stefan Monnier
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