Subject: Re: bug#30039: 26.0.90; [26.1] Making my code warning free is impossible with when-let

From: Noam Postavsky <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2018 09:43:04 -0500

Damien Cassou <[email-masked]> writes:

> I can think of two solutions to make my life easier (and potentially
> other package maintainers who care about code quality):
>
> - introduce when-let* (and if-let*) in Emacs 25; or

Since we don't have a time machine, this seems impractical (or if you
mean release 25.4 just for this, kind of overkill).

> - un-deprecate when-let (and if-let) in Emacs 26 and re-deprecate it
>   later.

When is "later"?  Wouldn't the problem remain indefinitely?  It kind of
sounds like this is suggestion means Emacs could no longer deprecate
anything.