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From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 01b97f9 1/2: Move VC diff ASYNC argument to the fifth position
Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2014 17:04:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <548DA717.1070608@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvtx0ymi5z.fsf-monnier+emacsdiffs@gnu.org>

On 12/14/2014 04:18 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>>      Move VC diff ASYNC argument to the fifth position
>
> BTW, we should devise a "standard" way to turn an async operation into
> a synchronous one, so that APIs such as the one used for VC backends can
> simply always work asynchronously, and if the client needs the answer
> right away he can just use this standard way.

Right, it can be a better replacement for `vc-exec-after'.

It would again break compatibility, but still checking if the returned 
arg is a promise, and if so forcing it, would be easier than calling 
`vc-call-backend' with different arguments depending on the Emacs version.



      reply	other threads:[~2014-12-14 15:04 UTC|newest]

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2014-12-14 14:18   ` [Emacs-diffs] master 01b97f9 1/2: Move VC diff ASYNC argument to the fifth position Stefan Monnier
2014-12-14 15:04     ` Dmitry Gutov [this message]

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