From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Ryde Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: Eval options macro: backward compatibility? Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 07:48:48 +1100 Message-ID: <87tzyiwzwv.fsf@zip.com.au> References: <871wlprck9.fsf@chbouib.org> <45B4C7A0.5020302@xs4all.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1169498959 28678 80.91.229.12 (22 Jan 2007 20:49:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 20:49:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 22 21:49:16 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1H966H-0007U0-Jd for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Jan 2007 21:49:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H966H-00057c-9Z for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Jan 2007 15:49:09 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H966D-000572-SX for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Jan 2007 15:49:05 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H966C-00056Y-5e for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Jan 2007 15:49:05 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H966B-00056L-W4 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Jan 2007 15:49:04 -0500 Original-Received: from [61.8.2.231] (helo=mailout2.pacific.net.au) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1H966B-0002ef-Er for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Jan 2007 15:49:03 -0500 Original-Received: from mailproxy1.pacific.net.au (mailproxy1.pacific.net.au [61.8.2.162]) by mailout2.pacific.net.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA5836E0F9; Tue, 23 Jan 2007 07:48:55 +1100 (EST) Original-Received: from localhost (ppp2286.dyn.pacific.net.au [61.8.34.134]) by mailproxy1.pacific.net.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5BAA8C0A; Tue, 23 Jan 2007 07:48:57 +1100 (EST) Original-Received: from gg by localhost with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1H965w-0002po-8C; Tue, 23 Jan 2007 07:48:48 +1100 Original-To: hanwen@xs4all.nl Mail-Copies-To: never In-Reply-To: <45B4C7A0.5020302@xs4all.nl> (Han-Wen Nienhuys's message of "Mon, 22 Jan 2007 15:18:08 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:6467 Archived-At: Han-Wen Nienhuys writes: > > does this also mean that we can (finally!) summarily throw away anything > that is marked as "deprecated GUILE 1.7" ? The short answer would be no, much too soon. The whole idea of discouraged etc is really bad. Forcing everyone to change their programs is terrible. Unless an interface is utterly hopeless the best thing is to leave it alone. _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel