GNU bug report logs - #56641
Deprecate `lsh`

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From: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 56641 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#56641: Deprecate `lsh`
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2022 17:53:48 +0200

19 juli 2022 kl. 16.44 skrev Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>:

> When would I want to use `lsh' over `ash'?

Never, of course, but we shouldn't remove `lsh` as long as it's needed for compatibility with old packages that make pre-bignum assumptions, which is the reason for its existence (and semantics) in the first place.

And that's fine -- `lsh` can be kept indefinitely. However, I just removed several calls to `lsh` from new code in Emacs so evidently we need to up our information efforts a notch.

Adding a few words to the doc string may suffice, but a byte-compiler warning would help.

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