From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Introducing 'safety' compilation parameter Date: Tue, 07 May 2024 16:15:47 +0300 Message-ID: <86v83pahks.fsf@gnu.org> References: Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="18708"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: acorallo@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, mattias.engdegard@gmail.com, stefankangas@gmail.com To: Alan Mackenzie Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue May 07 15:17:01 2024 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1s4Kgn-0004dQ-BK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 07 May 2024 15:17:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1s4Kfo-0007Ga-9E; Tue, 07 May 2024 09:16:00 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1s4Kfk-0007G5-Vz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 May 2024 09:15:57 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1s4Kfi-0005kt-8F; Tue, 07 May 2024 09:15:54 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=s8X8Sravei8tP+ZxUjApwqOTOrjjXpz9HXHB16m4EZ0=; b=a0Fk8IfwCSbA 1mz/ahqRSRtik/Wz5uQKTfjTQt0a3q5Hoaqhp6w0YQtlmiOEUtw+hOFWy7w9Zlvx3zCS3vXx9LY5o fcz30Dpzcz86lGti3Ykd/r4/C+hGtwDXUwjdfBuAit5ox1LDK7eNBz1UxgARXWhocjsqRRrDDJV7d UKcIkEuKghESQHW/wSmE7bLSCzvLyKOrhtc19RYAuQhy4bCr/XX9J4sYLUZarfIeTs677J5enIwfy 2EG1h9+0M8jXkFUSZgktK7+nAu0Wifaw0txV/yjvPzPS72YunTTByiMkjJzKzOWSHHO/EihW/S4Nb twv8TzYnCRpsi4eGYjlBvA==; In-Reply-To: (message from Alan Mackenzie on Tue, 7 May 2024 12:01:33 +0000) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:318944 Archived-At: > Date: Tue, 7 May 2024 12:01:33 +0000 > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii , > monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, mattias.engdegard@gmail.com, > stefankangas@gmail.com > From: Alan Mackenzie > > I see this change as one more boil-the-frog-slowly step towards turning > Emacs Lisp into a statically typed language. Alan, please be kinder, even if you dislike very much suggestions of others. The above could have been easily rephrased as Emacs Lisp should not be turned into a statically typed language. without losing any useful content, including your strenuous objection to the change.