From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] * etc/NEWS: Document incompatibilities introduced by record types. Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2017 20:03:35 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20171211213729.41411-1-phst@google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1513127039 19391 195.159.176.226 (13 Dec 2017 01:03:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2017 01:03:59 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Richard Stallman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 13 02:03:52 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eOvSi-0004bW-1O for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Dec 2017 02:03:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33010 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eOvSn-0008JJ-JO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 12 Dec 2017 20:03:57 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45256) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eOvSg-0008JC-QZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Dec 2017 20:03:51 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eOvSd-0007l9-PH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Dec 2017 20:03:50 -0500 Original-Received: from pmta11.teksavvy.com ([76.10.157.34]:14790) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_ARCFOUR_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eOvSd-0007ky-JV; Tue, 12 Dec 2017 20:03:47 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: =?us-ascii?q?A2EJEQC9ezBa/zyu+M5dHAEBAQQBAQoBA?= =?us-ascii?q?YM+gVqDXoVZhgeOEQGBfBQgAZFnhwoKhTUEAgKFB0QUAQEBAQEBAQEBA2gohSU?= =?us-ascii?q?BBAFWIwULCw4mEhQYDSQtigYIqm+KYAELASWDY4VKgyuKdSAFkyWPcpcjAYoDh?= =?us-ascii?q?2Y3lh0QgTs2I4FOMhoIMIJkhHIjiwYBAQE?= X-IPAS-Result: =?us-ascii?q?A2EJEQC9ezBa/zyu+M5dHAEBAQQBAQoBAYM+gVqDXoVZhge?= =?us-ascii?q?OEQGBfBQgAZFnhwoKhTUEAgKFB0QUAQEBAQEBAQEBA2gohSUBBAFWIwULCw4mE?= =?us-ascii?q?hQYDSQtigYIqm+KYAELASWDY4VKgyuKdSAFkyWPcpcjAYoDh2Y3lh0QgTs2I4F?= =?us-ascii?q?OMhoIMIJkhHIjiwYBAQE?= X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.45,395,1508817600"; d="scan'208";a="14122583" Original-Received: from 206-248-174-60.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO fmsmemgm.homelinux.net) ([206.248.174.60]) by smtp.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 12 Dec 2017 20:03:41 -0500 Original-Received: by fmsmemgm.homelinux.net (Postfix, from userid 20848) id CA980AE44F; Tue, 12 Dec 2017 20:03:35 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Tue, 12 Dec 2017 17:06:14 -0500") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 76.10.157.34 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:220980 Archived-At: > If programmers are not supposed to do it, let's detect it and report > an error when they try. That way, they will know it's an error as > soon as they try, rather than needing to debug it to find out it's an error. Why haven't we applied that same rule to (fset 'apply ...)? How about (use-global-map (make-keymap))? Stefan