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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
Cc: 19423-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#19423: 25.0.50; incompatible change to `make-obsolete' - added 3rd arg should be optional
Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2014 10:58:40 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e02206f2-e555-4427-8d11-0c8710933e8b@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <867fxkdecx.fsf@yandex.ru>

> > In Emacs 23 someone unwisely changed it to mandatory, an
> > incompatible change that gratuitously breaks code that could
> > be used with older Emacs releases.  Pain for no real gain.
> 
> You should look at the code sometimes.

You should look at the byte-compiler warning that the user sees.
It tells her that only 2 args are present but 3 are *required*.

> The change is very much compatible: `make-obsolete' can still be
> called with only two arguments without error.  The third one is only
> mandatory in the advertised calling convention.

See above.  The byte-compiler tells you that it is mandatory.

> Even if it wasn't, it would be too late to fix the "problem": it
> wouldn't work in 23 and 24 anyway.

No, but it would work for Emacs 25, and releases prior to 23.

There is no good reason *not* to fix it, is there?







  reply	other threads:[~2014-12-21 18:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-12-21 17:14 bug#19423: 25.0.50; incompatible change to `make-obsolete' - added 3rd arg should be optional Drew Adams
2014-12-21 17:19 ` Drew Adams
2014-12-21 18:53   ` Dmitry Gutov
2014-12-21 18:58     ` Drew Adams [this message]
2014-12-21 19:01       ` Drew Adams
2014-12-21 19:05       ` Dmitry Gutov
2014-12-21 20:33         ` Drew Adams
2014-12-21 20:39           ` Dmitry Gutov
2014-12-21 21:10             ` Drew Adams

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