From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs 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 Message-ID: <83lgir65ul.fsf@gnu.org> References: <86shd0h5xq.fsf@zoho.com> <87h8tgqw2p.fsf@web.de> <86o9noh1vd.fsf@zoho.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1511800338 14553 195.159.176.226 (27 Nov 2017 16:32:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 16:32:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 29462@debbugs.gnu.org To: Emanuel Berg Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 27 17:32:14 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eJMKB-0002pf-E1 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 Nov 2017 17:32:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33562 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eJMKI-0006wQ-7U for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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Mon, 27 Nov 2017 11:31:45 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eJMJo-0000Zm-Sm for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Nov 2017 11:31:44 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:52255) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eJMJo-0000Zd-Pk; Mon, 27 Nov 2017 11:31:40 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2114 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1eJMJo-0007bb-95; Mon, 27 Nov 2017 11:31:40 -0500 In-reply-to: <86o9noh1vd.fsf@zoho.com> (message from Emanuel Berg on Mon, 27 Nov 2017 03:49:42 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:140461 Archived-At: > From: Emanuel Berg > 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.