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Re: [PATCH] Reimplement module functions


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Reimplement module functions
Date: Sun, 14 May 2017 17:11:22 +0300

> From: Noam Postavsky <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 13 May 2017 23:07:26 -0400
> Cc: Philipp Stephani <address@hidden>, Philipp Stephani <address@hidden>, 
>       Emacs developers <address@hidden>
> 
> > I don't think we can simply remove a function that was already present
> > in one or more Emacs releases.  We need to provide a backward
> > compatibility layer, and definitely also mention this in NEWS.
> 
> Does an internal function like 'internal--module-call' really need all
> that? AFAIK, it was not really meant to be used except in the
> implementation of module_make_function.

We don't _have_ to do that, but if it's not too hard, why not be nice
to our users and keep providing it?  Maybe I'm missing something, but
it seemed to me that a simple wrapper around funcall_module or its
part would do.  We can declare it obsolete and remove it at some
future point.



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