From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
To: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>
Cc: Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz>, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Obsolete functions and variables
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 01:27:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47FEA27D.1050501@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f7ccd24b0804101616ye3d72d3y60178cb72a5ab@mail.gmail.com>
Juanma Barranquero wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 12:53 AM, Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz> wrote:
>
>> 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 agree. I just don't expect it to happen.
I am not sure I agree. Are not a function sometimes marked as obsolete
because there is a new better version that works in more cases? The old
obsolete function may still work in many cases.
Maybe a more visible warning when obsolete things are found would be
good? (Using for example lwarn.)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-10 23:27 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) [this message]
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
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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