From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm)
Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: make-glyph-code incompatibility
Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2008 21:44:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ufxv6i898.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tzjm95fo.fsf@kfs-lx.rd.rdm> (storm@cua.dk)
> Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm)
> Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2008 10:58:19 +0100
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > Yes. But you could make the new code use different symbols, and make
> > old symbols be unbound. That would cause error messages early enough.
>
> What symbols? The display table slots?
No, I meant make-glyph-code and other related functions/variables.
Sorry for being unclear.
> That would break more code - including code properly written to use
> make-glyph-code in emacs 22...
IMO, it's better to break code clearly and loudly than do that subtly
and silently. This is an incompatible change; if we cannot make it
backwards compatible, let's not sweep the incompatibility under the
carpet.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-04 19:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-03 21:16 make-glyph-code incompatibility Stefan Monnier
2008-03-04 0:08 ` Kim F. Storm
2008-03-04 4:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-03-04 9:58 ` Kim F. Storm
2008-03-04 19:44 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2008-03-04 22:35 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-03-05 15:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-03-04 23:07 ` Miles Bader
2008-03-04 16:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-03-04 18:23 ` Kim F. Storm
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