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Re: master 5b962a7: Avoid double argument evaluation in vc-call macro
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: master 5b962a7: Avoid double argument evaluation in vc-call macro |
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Tue, 21 Sep 2021 17:20:24 +0300 |
> From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
> Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2021 16:52:43 +0300
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> On 21.09.2021 16:45, Basil L. Contovounesios wrote:
> > Lars argued that the "buggy" behaviour was explicitly documented for a
> > long time, so it's safer to announce it:https://bugs.gnu.org/50690#8
> >
> > I was happy to oblige to tickle my megalomania and because I'm just a
> > poor student who can't afford to be sued.
>
> I think the NEWS entry could be useful for someone who comes later and
> writes code which needs to be compatible with previous versions of
> Emacs: if double evaluation is a problem for them, they could at least
> find the NEWS entry, to see when it was fixed.
>
> We don't usually do that for bug fixes, but since this was the
> documented behavior... *shrug*
Yes, it's borderline, so I see no harm in having that in NEWS.