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Re: Delete variables obsolete since Emacs 23
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Lars Ingebrigtsen |
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Re: Delete variables obsolete since Emacs 23 |
Date: |
Tue, 18 Aug 2020 13:17:07 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
>> I'm attaching a patch to remove most things declared obsolete in 23.2
>> and 23.3. (Nothing was declared obsolete in 23.4 AFAICT.)
>>
>> There are still some items obsoleted in 23.x left to delete in Semantic.
>> I intend to do that in a separate patch.
>>
>> Comments welcome.
>
> PLEASE do not remove `interactive-p'.
Emacs does have to move on and eventually remove stuff that we've
deprecated, and that's fine for most things.
But thinking about this a bit more, I agree with Drew here --
interactive-p is used too much in the wild for us to ever delete it. It
should stay marked as obsolete, but with a comment saying "never delete"
or something, because removing it will break too much code out there.
For a perspective on deprecation (which mentions Emacs :-)), this is a
pretty entertaining read:
https://medium.com/@steve.yegge/dear-google-cloud-your-deprecation-policy-is-killing-you-ee7525dc05dc
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no
- Re: Delete variables obsolete since Emacs 23, (continued)
- Re: Delete variables obsolete since Emacs 23, Gregory Heytings, 2020/08/19
- RE: Delete variables obsolete since Emacs 23, Drew Adams, 2020/08/19
- Re: Delete variables obsolete since Emacs 23, Stefan Monnier, 2020/08/19
- Re: Delete variables obsolete since Emacs 23, Gregory Heytings, 2020/08/19
- Re: Delete variables obsolete since Emacs 23, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/08/19
- Re: Delete variables obsolete since Emacs 23, Jeff Norden, 2020/08/19
- Re: Delete variables obsolete since Emacs 23, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/08/19
- RE: Delete variables obsolete since Emacs 23, Drew Adams, 2020/08/18
- Re: Delete variables obsolete since Emacs 23, Richard Stallman, 2020/08/18
- RE: Delete variables obsolete since Emacs 23, Drew Adams, 2020/08/18
- Re: Delete variables obsolete since Emacs 23,
Lars Ingebrigtsen <=
- Re: Delete variables obsolete since Emacs 23, Stefan Kangas, 2020/08/23
- Re: Delete variables obsolete since Emacs 23, Richard Stallman, 2020/08/24
- RE: Delete variables obsolete since Emacs 23, Drew Adams, 2020/08/25
- Re: Delete variables obsolete since Emacs 23, Richard Stallman, 2020/08/25
- Re: Delete variables obsolete since Emacs 23, Gregory Heytings, 2020/08/26
- Re: Delete variables obsolete since Emacs 23, Stefan Kangas, 2020/08/26
- Re: Delete variables obsolete since Emacs 23, Richard Stallman, 2020/08/26
- Re: Delete variables obsolete since Emacs 23, Stefan Kangas, 2020/08/26
- RE: Delete variables obsolete since Emacs 23, Drew Adams, 2020/08/26
- Re: Delete variables obsolete since Emacs 23, Stefan Monnier, 2020/08/26