GNU bug report logs - #48145
Quoting of when argument in expansion of declare obsolete

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Date: Sat, 1 May 2021 17:13:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Found in version 28.0.50

Fixed in version 29.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #6 received at 48145 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 48145 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#48145: Quoting of when argument in expansion of declare
 obsolete
Date: Sun, 02 May 2021 09:03:11 +0200

Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org> writes:

> I noticed statements like these in loaddefs.el, and found the quoting of
> the final WHEN argument a bit unexpected:
>
> (make-obsolete 'gnus-intersection 'seq-intersection '"28.1")
>
> I guess it is because of how byte-run--set-obsolete (and friends) is defined.
> Does it need to quote the `when' argument, since `when' is documented to
> be a string?

Grepping through the tree, we seem to have no non-string `when's, so
removing the ' should be safe.

We could also tweak things like

(function-put 'defmethod 'doc-string-elt '3)

I guess...

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