From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz>
Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Obsolete functions and variables
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 20:10:36 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1JkTKG-0002Nw-HT@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18430.39543.722541.830806@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> (message from Nick Roberts on Fri, 11 Apr 2008 10:53:43 +1200)
I guess
the dangers generally outweigh the advantages but there's not much point in
marking them obsolete if they're never going to be removed.
I think that is incorrect. It is useful to urge people to make their
code use more modern interfaces regardless of whether we ever delete
the old ones.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-12 0:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-10 5:02 Obsolete functions and variables Nick Roberts
2008-04-10 10:10 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-04-10 15:31 ` Richard Stallman
2008-04-10 15:43 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-04-10 22:53 ` Nick Roberts
2008-04-10 23:16 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-04-10 23:27 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-04-10 23:45 ` Nick Roberts
2008-04-11 0:21 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-04-11 1:20 ` Mike Mattie
2008-04-11 1:17 ` Mike Mattie
2008-04-11 1:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-04-11 7:26 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-04-12 0:10 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2008-04-12 0:58 ` Sebastian Rose
2008-04-12 1:02 ` Nick Roberts
2008-04-12 5:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-04-12 10:06 ` Nick Roberts
2008-04-12 13:38 ` Stefan Monnier
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