From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: tramp-compat-funcall -> compat-funcall?
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2016 11:49:50 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvfuoqehyu.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.devel@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87h997u1rq.fsf@lifelogs.com
> The use case, I think, is "to provide compatibility with older Emacsen,
> I need a convenient way to call a function softly without compiler
> warnings if it doesn't exist." I think, based on the two examples I gave
> (`gnus-funcall-no-warning' was the other instance), that it's not an
> uncommon need, and it's better to provide it in a core facility than ask
> package maintainers to implement it.
There's (if (fboundp '<foo>) (<foo> <bar>)) already (which is much
better than tramp-compat-funcall since it says explicitly what to do if
the function doesn't exist).
So the question is what to do for the use cases of
tramp-compat-funcall not covered by this if/fboundp idiom.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-23 15:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-22 11:04 tramp-compat-funcall -> compat-funcall? Ted Zlatanov
2016-09-22 12:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-09-22 13:22 ` Michael Albinus
2016-09-22 17:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-09-22 17:54 ` Michael Albinus
2016-09-22 18:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-09-22 20:18 ` Ted Zlatanov
2016-09-23 15:49 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2016-09-24 6:54 ` Michael Albinus
2016-09-24 13:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-09-24 15:39 ` Michael Albinus
2016-09-24 18:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-09-25 11:44 ` Michael Albinus
2016-09-25 14:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-09-25 17:23 ` Ted Zlatanov
2016-09-24 22:42 ` Ted Zlatanov
2016-09-25 14:17 ` Stefan Monnier
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