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bug#69739: 30.0.50; `type-of` is not precise enough
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Eli Zaretskii |
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bug#69739: 30.0.50; `type-of` is not precise enough |
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Tue, 12 Mar 2024 17:02:53 +0200 |
> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: 69739@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2024 10:43:24 -0400
>
> >> Still, any change as suggested here would be an incompatible change, so
> >> there's risk it'll break some code out there (`type-of` is not used very
> >> often, but it *is* used). Another option is to introduce a new function
> >> which does the same as `type-of` but with changes like the ones above.
> >> (we could even decide to give it a `cl-generic-` prefix to discourage
> >> its use elsewhere so we can be more free to change its return value in
> >> the future).
> > I'd prefer a non-breaking change, if possible and reasonable.
>
> Suggestion for a good name for that new function?
cl-generic-type-of is one.
> Should it make `type-of` obsolete?
I don't have an opinion on this. Depends on how much type-of is used,
I guess. Maybe we should wait for the next major release and decide
whether to deprecate then?
- bug#69739: 30.0.50; `type-of` is not precise enough, Stefan Monnier, 2024/03/11
- bug#69739: 30.0.50; `type-of` is not precise enough, Eli Zaretskii, 2024/03/12
- bug#69739: 30.0.50; `type-of` is not precise enough, Stefan Monnier, 2024/03/12
- bug#69739: 30.0.50; `type-of` is not precise enough,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- bug#69739: 30.0.50; `type-of` is not precise enough, Stefan Monnier, 2024/03/12
- bug#69739: 30.0.50; `type-of` is not precise enough, Eli Zaretskii, 2024/03/13
- bug#69739: 30.0.50; `type-of` is not precise enough, Stefan Monnier, 2024/03/14
- bug#69739: 30.0.50; `type-of` is not precise enough, Andrea Corallo, 2024/03/15
- bug#69739: 30.0.50; `type-of` is not precise enough, Andrea Corallo, 2024/03/15
- bug#69739: 30.0.50; `type-of` is not precise enough, Basil L. Contovounesios, 2024/03/15
- bug#69739: 30.0.50; `type-of` is not precise enough, Stefan Monnier, 2024/03/15
- bug#69739: 30.0.50; `type-of` is not precise enough, Eli Zaretskii, 2024/03/15
- bug#69739: 30.0.50; `type-of` is not precise enough, Stefan Monnier, 2024/03/17
- bug#69739: 30.0.50; `type-of` is not precise enough, Eli Zaretskii, 2024/03/18