From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Barry Margolin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: `looking-back' strange warning Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2015 14:50:25 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <560B9C7F.2060301@easy-emacs.de> <560CD7CE.4010404@yandex.ru> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1443726804 5195 80.91.229.3 (1 Oct 2015 19:13:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2015 19:13:24 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 01 21:13:24 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZhjIA-0005AL-Cl for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Oct 2015 21:13:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55559 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZhjI9-0008VQ-Pc for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Oct 2015 15:13:21 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!news-2.dfn.de!news.dfn.de!newsfeed.fsmpi.rwth-aachen.de!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!barmar.motzarella.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 23 Injection-Info: barmar.motzarella.org; posting-host="2be9e9f5dd9af768b8861af71b85fc28"; logging-data="11945"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19WfXpfjWm16t9yzHebb9JV" User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.3b3 (Intel Mac OS X) Cancel-Lock: sha1:pCj2dxzsFJRnQhpqR/pFnDftF0k= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:215147 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:107433 Archived-At: In article , Drew Adams wrote: > > It's a feature: calling `looking-back' without LIMIT is slow, don't do > > that. The compiler is telling you that. > > No, it is "warning" you that there are 2-3 "required" arguments, which is > patently false. This is a product bug, IMO. Wrong message. > > Letting you know how to improve performance or avoid slow performance is > helpful information, but it is not a "warning" - there is no danger here. > And there is only one required argument. The message specifically said "Warning:". How can you say it's not a warning? You're right that the wording could be improved, maybe it should say that this calling sequence is deprecated. -- Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu Arlington, MA *** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***