From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Need help finding a past discussion
Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2022 23:22:25 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1n5gll-0003lI-Cx@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvsfu1n23o.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (message from Stefan Monnier on Wed, 05 Jan 2022 19:28:20 -0500)
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> A year or two ago, I remember a discussion here about something like
> a hook where we wanted to make an incompatible change which required
> somehow distinguishing those functions that expected the old behavior
> from those that expected the new one.
> Maybe the change was about making the hook function return another
> function, so they could be called in two steps and passed arguments at
> two separate times.
> I vaguely also remember that we mentioned relying on symbol properties
> (when the function was represented as a symbol) to distinguish the kind
> of function at hand.
I don't remember this, but I have a feeling there would be a less
convoluted fix.
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-01-07 4:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-01-06 0:28 Need help finding a past discussion Stefan Monnier
2022-01-06 8:22 ` Juri Linkov
2022-01-06 13:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-01-07 4:22 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
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