From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>
Cc: 17418-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#17418: #:select gives access to private variables
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2016 18:06:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d1na7ci3.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wpliwozj.fsf@pobox.com> (Andy Wingo's message of "Tue, 21 Jun 2016 17:17:20 +0200")
Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com> skribis:
> On Tue 21 Jun 2016 16:52, ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>
>> Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com> skribis:
>>
>>> On Wed 04 Jun 2014 01:11, Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> writes:
>>>
>>>> Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> writes:
>>>>> Sounds good. Specifically, I guess we should deprecate this way of
>>>>> using #:select.
>>>>>
>>>>> If you do this, can you adjust system/repl/coop-server.scm to avoid it?
>>>>> It imports the following private bindings:
>>>>>
>>>>> start-repl* run-server* add-open-socket! close-socket!
>>>>
>>>> Also: prompting-meta-read
>>>
>>> Fixed in master.
>>
>> I would not close the bug if it remains in 2.0.x. Thoughts?
>
> I think we can't break 2.0 in this regard; it's technically
> incompatible. We could print a better deprecation warning but in this
> case I think I did the right thing. WDYT?
Yeah, you’re probably right; it would suddenly lead to unbound
variables, whether or not people realized they were relying on
“unspecified” behavior.
I withdraw my remark!
Ludo’.
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-06 8:48 bug#17418: #:select gives access to private variables Ludovic Courtès
2014-06-02 1:06 ` Mark H Weaver
2014-06-02 8:08 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-06-03 23:08 ` Mark H Weaver
2014-06-03 23:11 ` Mark H Weaver
2016-06-21 14:03 ` Andy Wingo
2016-06-21 14:52 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-06-21 15:17 ` Andy Wingo
2016-06-21 16:06 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
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