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Re: Obsolete functions and variables
From: |
Mike Mattie |
Subject: |
Re: Obsolete functions and variables |
Date: |
Thu, 10 Apr 2008 18:17:47 -0700 |
On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 01:27:57 +0200
"Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <address@hidden> wrote:
> Juanma Barranquero wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 12:53 AM, Nick Roberts
> > <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> >> I guess
> >> the dangers generally outweigh the advantages but there's not
> >> much point in marking them obsolete if they're never going to be
> >> removed.
> >
> > I agree. I just don't expect it to happen.
>
>
> I am not sure I agree. Are not a function sometimes marked as
> obsolete because there is a new better version that works in more
> cases? The old obsolete function may still work in many cases.
>
> Maybe a more visible warning when obsolete things are found would be
> good? (Using for example lwarn.)
A mention of a URL, or the information to fix it would be a help.
This was a jewel for figuring out what old style back-quotes are.
http://iep.water.ca.gov/d/bin/sbin/site/lib/xemacs-19.15/lisp/prim/backquote.el
CA Department of Water Resources Interagency Ecological Program (I.E.P) was not
my first
thought to find such a useful Emacs document.
This file had a very good explanation. I know you can always google, but google
is getting less useful it seems: to many hits on web-forums and portals.
>
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- Obsolete functions and variables, Nick Roberts, 2008/04/10
- Re: Obsolete functions and variables, Juanma Barranquero, 2008/04/10
- Re: Obsolete functions and variables, Richard Stallman, 2008/04/10
- Re: Obsolete functions and variables, Juanma Barranquero, 2008/04/10
- Re: Obsolete functions and variables, Nick Roberts, 2008/04/10
- Re: Obsolete functions and variables, Juanma Barranquero, 2008/04/10
- Re: Obsolete functions and variables, Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2008/04/10
- Re: Obsolete functions and variables, Nick Roberts, 2008/04/10
- Re: Obsolete functions and variables, Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2008/04/10
- Re: Obsolete functions and variables, Mike Mattie, 2008/04/10
- Re: Obsolete functions and variables,
Mike Mattie <=
- Re: Obsolete functions and variables, Stefan Monnier, 2008/04/10
- Re: Obsolete functions and variables, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2008/04/11
- Re: Obsolete functions and variables, Richard Stallman, 2008/04/11
- Re: Obsolete functions and variables, Sebastian Rose, 2008/04/11
- Re: Obsolete functions and variables, Nick Roberts, 2008/04/11
- Re: Obsolete functions and variables, Stefan Monnier, 2008/04/12
- Re: Obsolete functions and variables, Nick Roberts, 2008/04/12
- Re: Obsolete functions and variables, Stefan Monnier, 2008/04/12