From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ilya Zakharevich Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: CPerl and Perl 5.10.x Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2009 22:00:29 +0000 (UTC) Organization: U.C. Berkeley Math. Department. Message-ID: References: <871vmo2hk7.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1255128115 2639 80.91.229.12 (9 Oct 2009 22:41:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2009 22:41:55 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 10 00:41:45 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MwO9g-0001g8-Ba for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 10 Oct 2009 00:41:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40040 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MwO9f-0007wF-Qp for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 09 Oct 2009 18:41:43 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!feeder.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 24 Original-X-Trace: news.eternal-september.org U2FsdGVkX19mT4iVHA24TMXR240u98e7viPRKNgH3FZlEoEDCVLWZfOBAKwxu9VZWijxsfmZGEZC2GGRHITPiIpWwlGnGjK9OrW2LjBfvf0xCaqQ82f38wZY6oCweJbcp4/oDGgcPGzsstj1zKHSyw== Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@eternal-september.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2009 22:00:29 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1pl1 (Linux) X-Auth-Sender: U2FsdGVkX1+KXW3sRvYlHulPm0fpLNtOrcwzXftE6ks= Cancel-Lock: sha1:y5EvOHm2XqlA2aQJRCajFEfX6KA= Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:173709 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:68801 Archived-At: On 2009-09-29, David Combs wrote: >>> If there's a list of problems with your code, do you have a reference >>> (message-ID, whatever) to help me start somewhere? >>Basically, one has a lot of obsolete variables/functions used (with >>wrappers to avoid warnings), and (` ) etc is used a lot. Do not >>remember any specific message, but I may try to locate (10-years old?) >>discussion related to the coding style. > For us all, could you say something about "using wrappers to avoid > warnings"? Nothing fancy. IIRC, I use (funcall ) to call obsolete functions. eval-when-compile may define a certain macro which expands to either old backward-compatible syntax, or new no-warnings syntax depending on the version. [People rarely realize what a strange mixture of obsoleteness and flaming edge is present in scientific institutions (those where there is a system administrator supporting individual stations). Of course, little may compare with my house ;-] Yours, Ilya