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Re: master 5b962a7: Avoid double argument evaluation in vc-call macro


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: master 5b962a7: Avoid double argument evaluation in vc-call macro
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2021 17:20:24 +0300

> From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
> Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2021 16:52:43 +0300
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> On 21.09.2021 16:45, Basil L. Contovounesios wrote:
> > Lars argued that the "buggy" behaviour was explicitly documented for a
> > long time, so it's safer to announce it:https://bugs.gnu.org/50690#8
> > 
> > I was happy to oblige to tickle my megalomania and because I'm just a
> > poor student who can't afford to be sued.
> 
> I think the NEWS entry could be useful for someone who comes later and 
> writes code which needs to be compatible with previous versions of 
> Emacs: if double evaluation is a problem for them, they could at least 
> find the NEWS entry, to see when it was fixed.
> 
> We don't usually do that for bug fixes, but since this was the 
> documented behavior... *shrug*

Yes, it's borderline, so I see no harm in having that in NEWS.



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