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From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Damien Cassou <damien@cassou.me>,
	30039@debbugs.gnu.org, Nicolas Petton <nicolas@petton.fr>
Subject: bug#30039: 26.0.90; [26.1] Making my code warning free is impossible with when-let
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2018 16:03:45 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87efmxmfby.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAM-tV-9_bRNMQjYqWVTPWaYNajSB9gX0+gZhmsQV2mUWiL4FXg@mail.gmail.com> (Noam Postavsky's message of "Wed, 10 Jan 2018 18:06:20 -0500")


On 01/10/18 18:06 PM, Noam Postavsky wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 5:57 PM, Eric Abrahamsen
> <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> wrote:
>
>> Right, and the issue wasn't the introduction of when-let*, it was the
>> very short life-cycle of when-let.
>
> I don't understand how that leads to this:
>
>     I have to choose between compiler warnings on the one hand,
>     or multiple users running an Emacs without the function, on the other.
>
> Supposing when-let* was only introduced as a replacement to when-let
> in Emacs 30, you would still have to choose between users of Emacs 29
> reporting errors, or get deprecation warnings when compiling in Emacs
> 30. The (hypothetical) longer non-deprecated existence of when-let
> over versions 26,27,28,29 wouldn't help (unless you plan to stop
> developing your package before Emacs 30, I guess).

Ah, you're right. I guess it's just a matter of what Nicolas
mentioned -- these are awfully handy macros, and we're adopting them
early.





  reply	other threads:[~2018-01-11  0:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-01-09  7:27 bug#30039: 26.0.90; [26.1] Making my code warning free is impossible with when-let Damien Cassou
2018-01-09  8:16 ` Nicolas Petton
2018-01-10 19:11   ` Noam Postavsky
2018-01-10 21:50     ` Nicolas Petton
2018-01-11  9:19     ` Damien Cassou
2018-01-19 20:00       ` Noam Postavsky
2018-01-19 20:26         ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-01-19 20:40           ` Noam Postavsky
2018-01-20  7:42             ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-01-09 14:05 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-01-09 14:23   ` Damien Cassou
2018-01-09 14:43 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-01-10 12:13   ` Damien Cassou
2018-01-10 15:45     ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-01-10 16:24       ` Nicolas Petton
2018-01-10 17:24         ` Glenn Morris
2018-01-10 18:46         ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-01-10 21:48           ` Nicolas Petton
2018-01-10 22:05             ` Eric Abrahamsen
2018-01-10 22:23               ` Noam Postavsky
2018-01-10 22:40                 ` Nicolas Petton
2018-01-10 22:57                   ` Eric Abrahamsen
2018-01-10 23:06                     ` Noam Postavsky
2018-01-11  0:03                       ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
2018-01-11  9:02                     ` Nicolas Petton
2018-04-14 20:17                       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2018-04-15 11:53                         ` Michael Heerdegen
2018-02-21 22:28 ` Michael Heerdegen
2018-02-22  7:42   ` Damien Cassou
2018-03-06 15:12     ` Michael Heerdegen

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