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* Please restore `make-obsolete''s functionality.
@ 2010-07-26 20:28 Alan Mackenzie
  2010-07-26 20:49 ` Juanma Barranquero
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From: Alan Mackenzie @ 2010-07-26 20:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: emacs-devel

Hi, Emacs,

In the definition of `make-obsolete' (in
.../lisp/emacs-list/run-byte.el), the third parameter WHEN is &optional.

At least it was until somebody changed the interactive form to make WHEN
mandatory, on the pretext that "New code should always provide the `when'
argument.".

Please can we remove this Cleverness?  `make-obsolete' also has to work
on OLD code (sometimes very old code) written when WHEN was &optional.
There are 6 occurances inside CC Mode.  I really don't want to waste my
time trying to determine when each of these became obsolete.  There'll be
lots elsewhere too, probably.

The effect of this on me personally is to discourage me from clearing out
compilation warnings (of which there are ~55 in CC Mode).

Please can we have WHEN &optional again?

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).



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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
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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