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From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: tramp-compat-funcall -> compat-funcall?
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2016 15:22:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fuosdq85.fsf@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwveg4cdsv2.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.devel@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Thu, 22 Sep 2016 08:31:22 -0400")

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> [ The `subrp' check looks wrong/redundant.  `functionp' should already return
>   non-nil if `function` is a subr (unless it's a special form, in which
>   case using `funcall` would be wrong anyway).  ]

IIRC, it was not the case in older Emacsen and/or XEmacs. If `functionp'
behaves this way since Emacs 23, Tramp could remove the check for
`subrp', indeed.

> IOW, if there's a kind of situation that recurs often enough to warrant
> something like (tramp-)compat-funcall you should report this as a bug.

`tramp-compat-funcall' is almost used for backward compatibility. Who
shall be the target of a bug report then?

>         Stefan

Best regards, Michael.



  reply	other threads:[~2016-09-22 13:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-09-22 11:04 tramp-compat-funcall -> compat-funcall? Ted Zlatanov
2016-09-22 12:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-09-22 13:22   ` Michael Albinus [this message]
2016-09-22 17:46     ` Stefan Monnier
2016-09-22 17:54       ` Michael Albinus
2016-09-22 18:23         ` Stefan Monnier
2016-09-22 20:18   ` Ted Zlatanov
2016-09-23 15:49     ` Stefan Monnier
2016-09-24  6:54       ` Michael Albinus
2016-09-24 13:57         ` Stefan Monnier
2016-09-24 15:39           ` Michael Albinus
2016-09-24 18:40             ` Stefan Monnier
2016-09-25 11:44               ` Michael Albinus
2016-09-25 14:00                 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-09-25 17:23                   ` Ted Zlatanov
2016-09-24 22:42           ` Ted Zlatanov
2016-09-25 14:17             ` Stefan Monnier

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