Subject: Re: bug#47992: 27; 28; Phase out use of `equal` in `add-hook`, `remove-hook`

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 04 Jul 2021 04:56:19 +0200

Michael Heerdegen <[email-masked]> writes:

> Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]> writes:
>
>> [...]
>> and then this new add-hook function could refuse to accept name-less
>> lambdas...
>
> I must say I'm skeptical: in the case of `add-hook', this would be not
> much different from forcing the use of symbols (aka named normal
> functions).  Why add another name space (and the complexity this
> implies) - where is one too limiting?

These would not be normal functions, but lambdas with an id.

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