From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob@tcd.ie>
Cc: monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Byte-compilation of custom themes
Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2018 14:24:09 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83d0x9e8iu.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874lim2pyi.fsf@tcd.ie> (contovob@tcd.ie)
> From: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob@tcd.ie>
> Cc: <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>, <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2018 21:48:21 +0100
>
> >> Do you mean a cl-assertion, or an emulation thereof?
> >
> > I meant cl-assert.
>
> Unless I (being unfamiliar with the subtleties of the build and
> bootstrap process) am missing something, I think it's too early to load
> cl-lib here; at least 'make bootstrap' fails for me when I add
> (eval-when-compile (require 'cl-lib)) to custom.el. Is there a way
> around this?
Yes, explicitly check whether cl-lib is available, and skip the call
if not. We don't need this assertion during the bootstrap.
> >> Either way, what is the benefit of barfing before directory-files does?
> >
> > That you can control the text of the error message, and make it more
> > user-friendly. Also, an assertion clearly means we intended this not
> > to happen, rather than that the code failed to handle some valid
> > situation.
>
> Understood. I've noticed, however, that many, if not most, uses of
> cl-assert don't specify a custom error message. For future reference,
> is this acceptable practice, or would we rather see consistent use of
> more informative messages?
My preference is clear from the above, but I don't have enough
experience to answer the rest of your question.
Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-06-02 11:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-01-20 21:01 Byte-compilation of custom themes Basil L. Contovounesios
2018-01-24 16:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-01-30 22:16 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2018-01-31 2:26 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-02-01 0:45 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2018-02-02 14:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-05-10 2:49 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2018-05-10 2:54 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2018-05-11 14:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-05-11 14:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-05-11 15:16 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2018-05-11 16:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-05-11 20:03 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2018-05-11 17:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-05-11 20:43 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2018-05-12 7:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-06-01 20:48 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2018-06-01 21:07 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2018-06-02 11:24 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2018-06-02 18:53 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2018-06-02 19:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-06-02 20:02 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2018-06-03 3:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-06-03 11:21 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2018-06-03 15:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-06-03 16:08 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2018-06-03 16:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-06-03 17:48 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2018-06-03 20:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-06-04 1:33 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2018-07-03 7:57 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2018-07-11 1:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-07-11 6:05 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
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