From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Shrinking EIEIO objects Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2015 14:34:33 -0500 Message-ID: References: <54A6053B.5060001@siege-engine.com> <87h9w9whp2.fsf@engster.org> <54A6B36C.20603@gmail.com> <87d26xw602.fsf@engster.org> <87ppawur25.fsf@engster.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1420400101 15468 80.91.229.3 (4 Jan 2015 19:35:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2015 19:35:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eric Ludlam , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Engster Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 04 20:34:54 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1Y7qwt-0001v9-0y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 04 Jan 2015 20:34:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57877 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y7qws-0006vU-0i for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 04 Jan 2015 14:34:50 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47153) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y7qwg-0006vP-8z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Jan 2015 14:34:39 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y7qwd-0001as-2q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Jan 2015 14:34:38 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:63950) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y7qwc-0001al-Uu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Jan 2015 14:34:35 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AjwPAOwQflRFpY0B/2dsb2JhbABbgweDYIVaxR0EAgKBJBcBAQEBAQF8hAMBAQMBViMFCwsOJhIUGA0kiEoJ1lkBAQEBBgEBAQEekG8HhEgFiwGkLoF4hBkhgncBAQE X-IPAS-Result: AjwPAOwQflRFpY0B/2dsb2JhbABbgweDYIVaxR0EAgKBJBcBAQEBAQF8hAMBAQMBViMFCwsOJhIUGA0kiEoJ1lkBAQEBBgEBAQEekG8HhEgFiwGkLoF4hBkhgncBAQE X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.07,502,1413259200"; d="scan'208";a="106530819" Original-Received: from 69-165-141-1.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO ceviche.home) ([69.165.141.1]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA; 04 Jan 2015 14:34:34 -0500 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 7D1D066100; Sun, 4 Jan 2015 14:34:33 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <87ppawur25.fsf@engster.org> (David Engster's message of "Sat, 03 Jan 2015 10:55:14 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.181 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:180971 Archived-At: >> The "name" arg passed during creation of objects is obsolete, tho. >> But I don't know yet how to tell programmers about it (that's why I >> just added a `message' for now, so that I could tell when the name was >> detected and dropped). > Any chance the byte-compiler might be able to detect this? I haven't looked very deeply into it, but I think it won't be straightforward because you can always pass more arguments, so at least it won't be as simple a "removing a final optional argument". > Thanks for working on this! Since Eric also decided to drop support for > Emacs 23.x, I guess we can now really remove EIEIO from CEDET upstream > and just depend on the one that is in Emacs core. Great, thanks, Stefan