From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eric S. Raymond" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Some vc-dispatcher nitpicks Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 15:55:54 -0400 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs Message-ID: <20080516195554.GA23205@thyrsus.com> References: Reply-To: esr@thyrsus.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1210967798 4424 80.91.229.12 (16 May 2008 19:56:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 19:56:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: esr@snark.thyrsus.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 16 21:57:13 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Jx638-00060w-60 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 May 2008 21:57:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48504 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jx62O-00033g-P3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 May 2008 15:56:20 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jx61w-0002wt-5O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 May 2008 15:55:52 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jx61v-0002wS-EQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 May 2008 15:55:51 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=48978 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jx61v-0002wJ-B4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 May 2008 15:55:51 -0400 Original-Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5]:54348 helo=snark.thyrsus.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Jx61u-00014D-V2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 May 2008 15:55:51 -0400 Original-Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (Postfix, from userid 23) id ED9938301FA; Fri, 16 May 2008 15:55:54 -0400 (EDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:97285 Archived-At: Glenn Morris : > In toplevel form: > vc-dispatcher.el:768:1:Warning: !! The file uses old-style backquotes !! > This functionality has been obsolete for more than 10 years already > and will be removed soon. See (elisp)Backquote in the manual. I think this may be a false positive. I did look into it; it seems the line construct triggering the warning is the prefix comma on line 804, which looks like new-style to me. Correct me if I'm wrong. > In vc-at-event: > vc-dispatcher.el:812:16:Warning: Function `gensym' from cl package > called at runtime Yeah, that's a real warning that I inherited. Not sure why it's a problem, though. -- Eric S. Raymond