From: Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>, 29745@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#29745] [PATCH 0/3] Disallow phase returning <unspecified>.
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2017 10:26:08 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171218092608.GA2257@jurong> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zi6gxy6a.fsf@gnu.org>
On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 09:01:01AM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> I’m not opposed to changing things though. For instance we could change
> the return value of ‘substitute*’ to be #t on success; similarly for
> ‘install-file’.
>
> What do people think?
I agree, since I never understood why the function does not return a truth
value, if it is something we are interested in later for our phases.
Andreas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-12-18 9:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-12-16 23:12 [bug#29745] [PATCH 0/3] Disallow phase returning <unspecified> Arun Isaac
2017-12-16 23:16 ` [bug#29745] [PATCH 1/3] build: gnu-build-system: " Arun Isaac
2017-12-16 23:16 ` [bug#29745] [PATCH 2/3] build: gnu-build-system: Return #t from phases Arun Isaac
2017-12-16 23:16 ` [bug#29745] [PATCH 3/3] gnu: " Arun Isaac
2017-12-17 6:27 ` [bug#29745] [PATCH 0/3] Disallow phase returning <unspecified> Ricardo Wurmus
2017-12-17 16:55 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-12-17 17:47 ` Arun Isaac
2017-12-18 8:01 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-12-18 8:44 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-12-28 11:43 ` bug#29745: " Arun Isaac
2017-12-18 9:06 ` [bug#29745] " Arun Isaac
2017-12-19 8:38 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-12-19 21:58 ` Mark H Weaver
2017-12-18 9:26 ` Andreas Enge [this message]
2017-12-17 18:14 ` Marius Bakke
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