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[PATCH] Add the public API of Compat to the core

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Message #124 received at 66554 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>
To: Daniel Mendler <mail <at> daniel-mendler.de>
Cc: 66554 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Philip Kaludercic <philipk <at> posteo.net>,
 Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: Re: bug#66554: [PATCH] Add the public API of Compat to the core
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2024 15:34:32 -0800

Daniel Mendler <mail <at> daniel-mendler.de> writes:

>> If you want to label the `most-positive-fixnum` as a hack, I guess
>> that's OK but then the comment should clarify what it's referring to.
>
> I may be wrong, but I assume that Philip considers the autoload a hack.
> In this thread we discussed various alternatives to approach this
> problem, e.g., the package version regexp (another hack), or my naive
> idea of simply writing 29.1.9999 in the compat.el package header (yet
> another hack).

IMHO, the "naive" (why naive?) number 9999 is more readable, and in
practice will be the same as using most-positive-fixnum.  So I'd just
use that.

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