GNU bug report logs - #52018
28.0.60; Improve documentation for compilation-finish-functions

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Message #14 received at 52018 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Thibault Polge <thibault <at> thb.lt>
Cc: 52018 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#52018: 28.0.60; Improve documentation for
 compilation-finish-functions
Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2021 21:25:59 +0200

> From: Thibault Polge <thibault <at> thb.lt>
> Cc: 52018 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2021 20:08:56 +0100
> 
>     (force-mode-line-update)
>     [...]
>     (run-hook-with-args 'compilation-finish-functions cur-buffer msg)))
> 
> So the msg that compilation-handle-exit receives is passed, unmodified,
> to all 'compilation-finish-functions`.

Maybe so, but I'm looking at the calls of compilation-handle-exit, and
the callers do all kinds of transformations with the original status,
so I think documenting what happens to be more-or-less correct now is
fragile.

Why do you think this addition is of such great importance to have it
spelled out in the doc string?

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