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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: 34789@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#34789: mantemp.el should be obsoleted
Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2019 21:51:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <831s3h9mbi.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f0f17cb3-fbb1-70d7-ae53-688bac30ace9@cs.ucla.edu> (message from Paul Eggert on Fri, 8 Mar 2019 11:16:27 -0800)

> From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
> Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2019 11:16:27 -0800
> 
> Davis Herring writes, "One of your fixes was to progmodes/mantemp.el,
> which (now that I know it exists) I'm pretty sure should be obsoleted;
> as you may already know, C++ compilers haven't worked that way for any
> standard library type (and most user-defined types) in a very long time."
> 
> I notice that no significant changes have been made to mantemp.el since
> 1997. As it's evidently useless nowadays, I propose that we move
> mantemp.el to the obsolete area, and remove it in a later Emacs release.

If no compiler can ever be helped by that feature, I think I agree.
But I'd like first to hear in more detail why "C++ compilers haven't
worked that way for any standard library type (and most user-defined
types) in a very long time."  We should at least have this information
recorded here for posterity.

Thanks.





  reply	other threads:[~2019-03-08 19:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-03-08 19:16 bug#34789: mantemp.el should be obsoleted Paul Eggert
2019-03-08 19:51 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2019-06-13 12:13 ` bug#34789: Scan of regexp mistakes Stefan Kangas
2019-06-13 12:48   ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-13 13:42     ` Stefan Kangas
2019-06-22  9:09       ` Eli Zaretskii

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