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Re: Upcoming seq.el version problem with the Emacs release
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Nicolas Petton |
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Re: Upcoming seq.el version problem with the Emacs release |
Date: |
Mon, 21 Mar 2016 14:45:27 +0100 |
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Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:
>> The problem is that seq.el (in Emacs) uses `pcase-defmacro', which does
>> not exist in Emacs 24.5. When byte-compiling the file, we get warnings
>> as the byte compiler will think that `pcase-defmacro' is a function.
>
> Is that really the only problem?
We'd get byte-compilation warnings. Maybe that's something we can live
with, but since it's easy enough to fix, now that I know how to do it,
I'd rather make sure that we don't get any warning in Emacs 24.5.
> I thought the main problem was that GNU ELPA's seq.el can't use
> cl-defgeneric since GNU-ELPA's cl-generic can only dispatch on
> EIEIO types.
No, that's a limitation I'm ok with.
> As for preventing byte-compilation, yes indeed you can and I've done
> that a few times recently. See for example dts--using-macro in the
> dts-mode package (in GNU ELPA).
> See also TeX--if-macro-fboundp in auctex's tex.el.
Thanks for the pointers!
Nico
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