From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org>
Cc: ding@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: functionp bug
Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2008 15:23:34 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvve2tpj2f.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <v9skxx4ifd.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> (Reiner Steib's message of "Mon, 07 Apr 2008 20:40:54 +0200")
> There are around 70 (functionp somevar) in Gnus. I'd guess that many
> of these expect `functionp' to return non-nil for special forms (or,
> if, and, ...).
All the places that call `functionp' and expect it to return t for `or',
and `if', have a bug, because they should also accept `when' for which
`functionp' has been returning nil for a loooong time now.
> Maybe it is possible to fix them all, but is it really the right thing
> to make such an incompatible change? What is the reason for
> this change?
That the strange definition of `functionp' was never what was really
needed: if special-forms should be accepted, than so should macros.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-07 19:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-07 1:20 Katsumi Yamaoka
2008-04-07 16:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-04-07 18:34 ` Romain Francoise
2008-04-07 19:26 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-04-07 21:27 ` Manoj Srivastava
2008-04-07 21:50 ` Reiner Steib
2008-04-07 18:40 ` Reiner Steib
2008-04-07 19:23 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2008-04-09 7:56 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2008-04-09 8:54 ` Andreas Schwab
2008-04-09 10:34 ` Richard Stallman
2008-04-09 14:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-04-09 14:26 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-04-09 22:53 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2008-04-10 1:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-04-10 2:02 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2008-04-10 10:44 ` Reiner Steib
2008-04-10 11:19 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2008-04-10 11:38 ` Reiner Steib
2008-04-10 11:57 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2008-04-10 18:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-04-10 19:12 ` Reiner Steib
2008-04-10 21:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-04-10 22:13 ` Reiner Steib
2008-04-09 22:34 ` Johan Bockgård
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