Subject: RE: bug#22890: 25.1.50; Wishlist: There should be file-attribute accessors

From: Drew Adams <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2016 11:51:41 -0800 (PST)

> Is there a way to get the byte compiler to output warnings about
> using `nth' on output from `file-attributes'?  That would be awesome.  

It would not be awesome.  It would be annoying.
There is nothing to WARN about here.

If you want to control usage for internal Emacs Dev
code then do just that.  But for Emacs-Lisp users
in general this would be completely inappropriate.