From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Sameer Rahmani <lxsameer@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Lisp Api and backward compatibility
Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2019 21:18:57 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1hFTnN-0006ZQ-VC@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <eac6e638-b121-2726-085b-d7b12bb41b39@gnu.org> (message from Sameer Rahmani on Fri, 12 Apr 2019 21:09:54 +0100)
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> What should i consider before changing the signature of a function which
> is part of the public api of a library ? should I add the new argument
> as the last argument ? what do we usually do for backward compatibility ?
Would it be possible to define a new function with a different name
and leave the old function unchanged?
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-04-14 1:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-04-12 20:09 Lisp Api and backward compatibility Sameer Rahmani
2019-04-12 20:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-04-12 20:28 ` Sameer Rahmani
2019-04-12 20:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-04-12 21:13 ` Drew Adams
2019-04-14 1:18 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
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