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bug#45438: 27.1; please fix misleading documentation for assoc-delete-al
From: |
Lars Ingebrigtsen |
Subject: |
bug#45438: 27.1; please fix misleading documentation for assoc-delete-all |
Date: |
Fri, 25 Dec 2020 23:32:05 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Hendrik Tews <hendrik.tews@kernkonzept.com> writes:
> assoc-delete-all was introduced in emacs 26.2, however,
> describe-function says "Probably introduced at or before Emacs
> version 21.1.". Please fix this to report the right version
> number where assoc-delete-all was introduced. With this kind of
> misleading information, it is very difficult to write code that
> is backward compatible to a number of different emacs major
> versions.
Indeed, but Emacs does not have a history of when functions are
introduced -- we only have guesswork. Which is why it says "probably".
assoc-delete-all has a convoluted history -- it was introduced in 1999,
and then renamed to assq-delete-all, before being reintroduced in 2018
again. Here the guesser guesses wrong.
Closing.
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- bug#45438: 27.1; please fix misleading documentation for assoc-delete-all, Hendrik Tews, 2020/12/25
- bug#45438: 27.1; please fix misleading documentation for assoc-delete-all,
Lars Ingebrigtsen <=
- bug#45438: 27.1; please fix misleading documentation for assoc-delete-all, Richard Stallman, 2020/12/26
- bug#45438: 27.1; please fix misleading documentation for assoc-delete-all, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/12/26
- bug#45438: 27.1; please fix misleading documentation for assoc-delete-all, Drew Adams, 2020/12/26
- bug#45438: 27.1; please fix misleading documentation for assoc-delete-all, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2020/12/26
- bug#45438: 27.1; please fix misleading documentation for assoc-delete-all, Richard Stallman, 2020/12/27
- bug#45438: 27.1; please fix misleading documentation for assoc-delete-all, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/12/27
- bug#45438: 27.1; please fix misleading documentation for assoc-delete-all, Richard Stallman, 2020/12/28
- bug#45438: 27.1; please fix misleading documentation for assoc-delete-all, Hendrik Tews, 2020/12/26
bug#45438: 27.1; please fix misleading documentation for assoc-delete-all, Hendrik Tews, 2020/12/26