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: Please restore `make-obsolete''s functionality. Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 23:55:33 +0200 Message-ID: References: <20100726202840.GB2993@muc.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1280181397 16327 80.91.229.12 (26 Jul 2010 21:56:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 21:56:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Alan Mackenzie Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 26 23:56:36 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OdVex-000450-O3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 Jul 2010 23:56:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56127 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OdVes-0005iW-8f for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 Jul 2010 17:56:26 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=34401 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OdVe9-0005P5-BR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Jul 2010 17:55:42 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OdVe8-0005uO-CL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Jul 2010 17:55:41 -0400 Original-Received: from chene.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.20]:33677) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OdVe8-0005uH-7A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Jul 2010 17:55:40 -0400 Original-Received: from ceviche.home (vpn-132-204-232-132.acd.umontreal.ca [132.204.232.132]) by chene.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id o6QLtYWU027505; Mon, 26 Jul 2010 17:55:35 -0400 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 822D9660BB; Mon, 26 Jul 2010 23:55:33 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <20100726202840.GB2993@muc.de> (Alan Mackenzie's message of "Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:28:40 +0000") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 1 Rules triggered RV3586=0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:127854 Archived-At: > Please can we remove this Cleverness? `make-obsolete' also has to work > on OLD code (sometimes very old code) written when WHEN was &optional. It's still optional, although the byte-compiler doesn't know it so it complains. Stefan