From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Emanuel Berg <moasen@zoho.com>
Cc: 29462@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#29462: 24.4; eval-when-compile won't mute warning as says in info doc
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 18:31:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83lgir65ul.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86o9noh1vd.fsf@zoho.com> (message from Emanuel Berg on Mon, 27 Nov 2017 03:49:42 +0100)
> From: Emanuel Berg <moasen@zoho.com>
> Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 03:49:42 +0100
>
> It sure send mixed signals and as it stands one
> gets the impression what you should do is find
> ways of silencing warnings, instead of
> improving the code so there is nothing to warn
> about to begin with.
In many real-life situations, there's no cleaner way of avoiding such
warnings, except to require the package which defines the features you
are warned about. There's nothing wrong about doing that, which is
why you will find such uses all over the Emacs sources.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-11-27 16:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-27 1:21 bug#29462: 24.4; eval-when-compile won't mute warning as says in info doc Emanuel Berg
2017-11-27 2:44 ` Michael Heerdegen
2017-11-27 2:49 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-11-27 16:31 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2017-11-27 16:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-27 16:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
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