From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Strange change in bytecmop.el Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 14:45:26 -0400 Message-ID: <87sly54b2s.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1122145364 1073 80.91.229.2 (23 Jul 2005 19:02:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 19:02:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 23 21:02:43 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DwPGa-0005P5-08 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 23 Jul 2005 21:02:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DwPGM-0006FA-Oi for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 23 Jul 2005 15:02:18 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DwPFh-0006EU-4G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Jul 2005 15:01:37 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DwPFd-0006D3-9J for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Jul 2005 15:01:36 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DwPFd-0006D0-6g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Jul 2005 15:01:33 -0400 Original-Received: from [209.226.175.93] (helo=tomts36-srv.bellnexxia.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DwPAB-00012B-AN; Sat, 23 Jul 2005 14:55:55 -0400 Original-Received: from alfajor ([67.71.33.137]) by tomts36-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.10 201-253-122-130-110-20040306) with ESMTP id <20050723184526.IUXA16985.tomts36-srv.bellnexxia.net@alfajor>; Sat, 23 Jul 2005 14:45:26 -0400 Original-Received: by alfajor (Postfix, from userid 1000) id C4057D7573; Sat, 23 Jul 2005 14:45:26 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Richard M. Stallman's message of "Fri, 22 Jul 2005 18:52:04 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:41169 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:41169 > the last part not only is strange because (featurep 'emacs) is never used > (since Emacs does not provide the `emacs' feature) > I didn't realize that at the time, but maybe we should add it. Why bother. People already use (featurep 'xemacs) in order to check whether they're running on Emacs or XEmacs. So (featurep 'emacs) would be redundant. > but also because it tries > to handle (featurep 'xemacs) even though that's already handled in > byteopt.el where we do: > Well, it didn't always do the job. > This code is needed. Could you give at least some example so we can add relevant comments explaining the apparent redundancy? Stefan