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From: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
To: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
Cc: Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com>,
	Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>,
	Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>,
	monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, 73853@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#73853: 31.0.50; Should and-let* become a synonym for when-let*?
Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2024 19:32:56 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87msiplr13.fsf@melete.silentflame.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ed41kcuk.fsf@web.de> (Michael Heerdegen's message of "Sun, 27 Oct 2024 12:24:35 +0100")

Hello,

On Sun 27 Oct 2024 at 12:24pm +01, Michael Heerdegen wrote:

> Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de> writes:
>
>> Please no more incompatibilities with older Emacsen except when
>> absolutely necessary. It's already hard enough for packages developed
>> outside the Emacs repo.
>
> My suggestion is not more incompatible than the current approach.

I think it is, unfortunately, because it requires people to do more
reading and thinking when updating their code.

I find your idea interesting, but also not useful enough for the
complexity that it entails -- both transition complexity, and inherent
complexity.

-- 
Sean Whitton





  reply	other threads:[~2024-10-27 11:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-10-17 16:27 bug#73853: 31.0.50; and-let* is useless Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-10-17 16:40 ` Drew Adams via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-10-18  2:11 ` Michael Heerdegen via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-10-18 23:42   ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-10-19  3:50     ` Michael Heerdegen via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-10-21  7:07     ` Augusto Stoffel
2024-10-21  8:57       ` Michael Heerdegen via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-10-21 12:09         ` Sean Whitton
2024-10-19  3:38   ` Sean Whitton
2024-10-20 12:24     ` Stefan Kangas
2024-10-22 14:47       ` bug#73853: 31.0.50; Should and-let* become a synonym for when-let*? Sean Whitton
2024-10-22 15:24         ` Michael Heerdegen via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-10-23 14:05           ` Stefan Kangas
2024-10-24  8:51             ` Sean Whitton
2024-10-25 12:09               ` Sean Whitton
2024-10-30  9:42                 ` Michael Albinus via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-10-26 19:25           ` Jim Porter
2024-10-27  7:08             ` Stefan Kangas
2024-10-27  9:16               ` Michael Heerdegen via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-10-27 10:12                 ` Michael Albinus via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-10-27 11:24                   ` Michael Heerdegen via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-10-27 11:32                     ` Sean Whitton [this message]
2024-10-27 11:44                     ` Michael Albinus via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-10-27 12:28                       ` Michael Heerdegen via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-10-27 13:10                         ` Sean Whitton
2024-10-27 13:22                         ` Michael Albinus via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-10-28  9:39                           ` Michael Heerdegen via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-10-27 14:41                 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-10-28 13:58                   ` Michael Heerdegen via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-10-28 14:32                     ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-10-27 20:00                 ` Drew Adams via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-10-28  2:15           ` Howard Melman
2024-10-28  3:19             ` Sean Whitton
2024-10-29 15:21 ` Jonas Bernoulli
2024-10-29 16:36   ` Drew Adams via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-10-30  0:49   ` Sean Whitton
2024-10-30 12:55   ` Corwin Brust

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