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Re: Need help finding a past discussion
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Richard Stallman |
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Re: Need help finding a past discussion |
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Thu, 06 Jan 2022 23:22:25 -0500 |
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> A year or two ago, I remember a discussion here about something like
> a hook where we wanted to make an incompatible change which required
> somehow distinguishing those functions that expected the old behavior
> from those that expected the new one.
> Maybe the change was about making the hook function return another
> function, so they could be called in two steps and passed arguments at
> two separate times.
> I vaguely also remember that we mentioned relying on symbol properties
> (when the function was represented as a symbol) to distinguish the kind
> of function at hand.
I don't remember this, but I have a feeling there would be a less
convoluted fix.
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