Re: Three Flymake backends Was Re: Two issues with the new Flymake

[João Távora]

Dmitry Gutov <address@hidden> writes:

> On 11/3/17 10:17 PM, João Távora wrote:
>
>> I attach patches for Lele's Python backend, which would close 28808 and
>> I'm also throwing in backends for Ruby and Perl.
>
> I think you've attached two patches for Perl, and none for Ruby.

Oops. But I've just pushed the correct set emacs-26 if you want to have
a look now.

>> So I'm thinking that, for master (_not_ emacs-26) we could use a
>> declarative flymake-define-simple-backend macro.
> Why not make it a function? From what I can see, the usage will just
> have to quote the first two arguments.

Because the macro defines a new function.