bug#30039: 26.0.90; [26.1] Making my code warning free is impossible with when-let

[Damien Cassou]

Noam Postavsky <npostavs@users.sourceforge.net> writes:
> Since we don't have a time machine, this seems impractical (or if you
> mean release 25.4 just for this, kind of overkill).


I would also like a time machine but I was more referring to a new
release of Emacs 25.


>> - un-deprecate when-let (and if-let) in Emacs 26 and re-deprecate it
>>   later.
>
> When is "later"?  Wouldn't the problem remain indefinitely?


That’s a question we need to answer. I think supporting 2 releases would
already be good (i.e., 26.1 does not deprecate but 26.2 does).


> It kind of sounds like this is suggestion means Emacs could no longer
> deprecate anything.


I’m all in favor of deprecation. This is important to move forward.

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