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From: | Michael Heerdegen |
Subject: | bug#14734: 24.3.50; REGRESSION: defadvice broken wrt doc strings (C-h f) |
Date: | Sat, 29 Jun 2013 00:19:07 +0200 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes: > And just why did something already implemented (and stable for years) > need to be REimplemented "for backward compatibility"? Why did adding > something new and different and presumably better require ALSO > reimplementing something that was already, by definition, backward > compatible? I had the same question - since reimplementing should have been a bit of work. But maintaining the reimplementation is probably much easier than doing so for the old package, so I can understand this decision. Michael.
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