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Re: Warning when byte-compiling simple.el


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: Warning when byte-compiling simple.el
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:50:38 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux)

>     In minibuffer-default-add-completions:
>     simple.el:1375:15:Warning: all-completions called with 4 arguments, but
>       accepts only 2-3

> This warning is a lie: all-completions accepts 2 to 4 arguments.  I
> don't think we should lie about that; if we want to deprecate the 4th
> argument, we should find a better way of conveying this to its users.

I guess the warning should use a more informative message, indeed.

> In any case, we shouldn't call it with 4 arguments ourselves,
> certainly not in such a core file as simple.el.

Agreed.  So the warning worked: it caught this use ;-)


        Stefan




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