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From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com>
Cc: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Why do we have xsignal?
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2019 12:02:23 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <80131581-8676-75de-2492-5c8093b906d9@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAArVCkQ-QXd0n=fKY+8czeiimaV76Vb9Va4t080uDjkmP5gEEQ@mail.gmail.com>

On 4/22/19 10:30 AM, Philipp Stephani wrote:
> xsignal is exactly the same as Fsignal, is there any reason we need to keep it?

The two names are present only for historical reasons; see Bug#24047. I
don't see any reason to keep xsignal other than inertia, and would favor
dropping xsignal and changing its callers to use Fsignal as this will
simplify the code.




      parent reply	other threads:[~2019-04-22 19:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-04-22 17:30 Why do we have xsignal? Philipp Stephani
2019-04-22 17:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-04-22 18:26   ` Philipp Stephani
2019-04-22 18:35     ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-04-22 19:02 ` Paul Eggert [this message]

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