From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: John Wiegley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix (letrec ((ignore))) Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2015 13:55:33 -0800 Message-ID: References: <20151211161116.GA8923@apertron.net> <20151213121315.GA2680@acm.fritz.box> <20151214202422.GA3687@acm.fritz.box> <878u4w92q2.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1450130156 19085 80.91.229.3 (14 Dec 2015 21:55:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2015 21:55:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: =?utf-8?Q?Aur=C3=A9lien?= Aptel , Artur Malabarba , Zack Piper , Emacs developers , Kaushal Modi , Alan Mackenzie To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 14 22:55:49 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 1a8b5w-0001wf-VL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 Dec 2015 22:55:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34091 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a8b5w-0004n1-Ij for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 Dec 2015 16:55:48 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42971) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a8b5s-0004mq-MK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Dec 2015 16:55:45 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a8b5r-0003T3-N9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Dec 2015 16:55:44 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-pa0-x232.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400e:c03::232]:35353) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a8b5m-0003SH-Vo; Mon, 14 Dec 2015 16:55:39 -0500 Original-Received: by padhk6 with SMTP id hk6so70324640pad.2; Mon, 14 Dec 2015 13:55:38 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=from:to:cc:subject:in-reply-to:date:message-id:references :user-agent:mail-followup-to:mime-version:content-type; bh=QFOMCddj27Zp2tcS0u1n3OZ0/6ZrYJo4ovhsLgS185s=; b=D2AoZYoihltgWBd0yERpz33S2wnqxgB1oAkkhwMTQypbJsqswMDz8JBFmaSurKcy3Q bdV3jUC0JF00phSgMnC2S10Rpap9sbAgmlepr16P6krsP3sPr3ls1Ia7tZzxj9hPNvZu SeotzdC8xmuzIqSx5JHgGdQbkqUwwsuPN13bJtuM4wT2gRubulj33IQS7WY08Ua8Jw0L HbaX5OfsYCjguFH5EOs+Zcf0/7WWfOOq8cRMHTp7z6CJduM/XOMQ7n9dY79l9Rz3AeWb x48N3S1wuZ2hubJ+Ml8q0YFH33h0BezGARhcU/y+1eGSTPNpUH8E2glwOrtBmT7Mt/+s Z6cA== X-Received: by 10.66.158.129 with SMTP id wu1mr49604876pab.146.1450130138186; Mon, 14 Dec 2015 13:55:38 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from Vulcan.local (76-234-68-79.lightspeed.frokca.sbcglobal.net. [76.234.68.79]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id l20sm44436564pfi.10.2015.12.14.13.55.36 (version=TLS1 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128/128); Mon, 14 Dec 2015 13:55:36 -0800 (PST) X-Google-Original-From: "John Wiegley" Original-Received: by Vulcan.local (Postfix, from userid 501) id A20FC115820C4; Mon, 14 Dec 2015 13:55:35 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <878u4w92q2.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (David Kastrup's message of "Mon, 14 Dec 2015 21:47:49 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.130014 (Ma Gnus v0.14) Emacs/24.5 (darwin) Mail-Followup-To: David Kastrup , Alan Mackenzie , Artur Malabarba , Zack Piper , Emacs developers , =?utf-8?Q?Au?= =?utf-8?Q?r=C3=A9lien?= Aptel , Kaushal Modi X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:400e:c03::232 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:196269 Archived-At: >>>>> David Kastrup writes: > It's awful as far as I'm concerned. But being documented and available for a > long time, deprecating it is a slow process, starting with undocumenting it > and giving byte compiler warnings. We haven't taken that approach with setq/setf, but I'm fine either way. I'm also willing to leave this one alone until it starts biting someone, since I imagine letrec is far less commonly used. -- John Wiegley GPG fingerprint = 4710 CF98 AF9B 327B B80F http://newartisans.com 60E1 46C4 BD1A 7AC1 4BA2