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Re: make-glyph-code incompatibility
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: make-glyph-code incompatibility |
Date: |
Tue, 04 Mar 2008 21:44:51 +0200 |
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> From: address@hidden (Kim F. Storm)
> Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2008 10:58:19 +0100
>
> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Yes. But you could make the new code use different symbols, and make
> > old symbols be unbound. That would cause error messages early enough.
>
> What symbols? The display table slots?
No, I meant make-glyph-code and other related functions/variables.
Sorry for being unclear.
> That would break more code - including code properly written to use
> make-glyph-code in emacs 22...
IMO, it's better to break code clearly and loudly than do that subtly
and silently. This is an incompatible change; if we cannot make it
backwards compatible, let's not sweep the incompatibility under the
carpet.
Re: make-glyph-code incompatibility, Stefan Monnier, 2008/03/04