From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "Stefan Monnier" <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: RE: should fset 'symbol get an undefined function warning?
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:39:58 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <BNELLINCGFJLDJIKDGACEEFACEAA.drew.adams@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv8x5kuuyq.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
> > `defalias' might be better to use in this context, but it
> > should still be good to not issue that warning for `fset'.
> > (I'm not saying anyone has disagreed with that.)
>
> I disagree: `fset' is meant to *change* the function-slot
> of a symbol, not to initialize it. So it's use shouldn't be treated by
> the byte-compiler as a declaration. Insted, the byute-compiler should
> complain about the use of `fset' on an unknown function similarly to the
> use of `set(q)' on an unknown variable.
Good point. I'm convinced.
Was there an opposing consideration that led you to say "Could be" at first,
or was that before this point occurred to you?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-30 22:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-30 5:14 should fset 'symbol get an undefined function warning? Dan Nicolaescu
2007-10-30 18:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-10-30 20:47 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2007-10-30 21:05 ` Drew Adams
2007-10-30 21:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-10-30 22:39 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2007-10-31 0:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-10-31 0:09 ` Richard Stallman
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