Re: Change in bytecomp.el breaks Gnus

[Katsumi Yamaoka]

>>>>> In <address@hidden> 
>>>>>   Stefan <address@hidden> wrote:

>> (if (fboundp 'message)
>>     (defalias 'foo 'message)
>>   (defalias 'foo 'ignore))

>   (defalias 'foo
>     (if (fboundp 'message) 'message 'ignore))

That's okay.

>> If it is normal, we will have to use `eval-and-compile' to
>> surround similar `defalias' forms in many places.

> Yuck.  Why do people feel like it's better to use ugly hacks than to get
> a few warnings ?

Because it will grow up to be not a few numbers of warnings if
we don't take any countermeasure.  It makes it hard to find
important messages from such chaos.  Gnus was made not to issue
such negligible warnings until now.