From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/68011 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dave Love Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: fix for time-date.el Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 21:07:47 +0000 Message-ID: <878wpyn10c.fsf@liv.ac.uk> References: <87abam99gx.fsf@liv.ac.uk> <874p0un8sq.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1230584949 25682 80.91.229.12 (29 Dec 2008 21:09:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 21:09:09 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M16456@lists.math.uh.edu Mon Dec 29 22:10:16 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LHPMl-0005Nl-DR for ding-account@gmane.org; Mon, 29 Dec 2008 22:09:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1LHPKz-0001ba-0p; Mon, 29 Dec 2008 15:07:45 -0600 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1LHPKx-0001bE-GN for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 29 Dec 2008 15:07:43 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LHPKv-0000ws-1P for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 29 Dec 2008 15:07:43 -0600 Original-Received: from mxa.liv.ac.uk ([138.253.100.59]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1LHPL9-0003MV-00 for ; Mon, 29 Dec 2008 22:07:55 +0100 Original-Received: from mailhubb.liv.ac.uk ([138.253.100.37]) by mxa.liv.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1LHPKO-0001x0-VK for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 29 Dec 2008 21:07:08 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=mailhubb.liv.ac.uk) by mailhubb.liv.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1LHPKO-0005qJ-U8 for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 29 Dec 2008 21:07:08 +0000 Original-Received: from pc102091.liv.ac.uk ([138.253.102.91] helo=albion) by mailhubb.liv.ac.uk with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1LHPKO-0005qG-Nx for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 29 Dec 2008 21:07:08 +0000 Original-Received: from dlove by albion with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LHPL1-0005yZ-SU for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 29 Dec 2008 21:07:47 +0000 X-Draft-From: ("nnimap+imap.liv.ac.uk:Misc" 3280) In-Reply-To: <874p0un8sq.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> (Reiner Steib's message of "Tue, 23 Dec 2008 16:41:25 +0000") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) X-Spam-Score: -5.6 (-----) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:68011 Archived-At: Reiner Steib writes: > Did you test with Emacs 21? Yes. I thought it was supposed still to be supported -- that's what the gnus-coding Info file says. > In Emacs 22 and up, declare is a Lisp > macro in `subr.el', assoc-string is a built-in function in > `src/minibuf.c'. *Sigh*. It's been in CL for a very long time... There's a distressing amount of that sort of thing in 22. > `format-seconds' (where `assoc-string' is used) is not used anywhere > in Gnus so it's not a real problem, AFAICS. Fortunately the function where it's used seems to be new; otherwise it would be a problem. It seems to me to merit a comment at least.