Re: Suggest FSF incorporation of XEmacs schema to cleanly suppress byte-compilation warnings
Hello. We have had running in XEmacs for two years or more some
routines I
wrote to cleanly handle byte-compilation warnings. The problem was that
many byte-compilation warnings were unavoidable when doing legitimate
things. I came up with a clean solution to this problem and it has worked
very well; all of the XEmacs core elisp code is now completely warning-free.
I propose that this be incorporated into GNU Emacs as well. If agreed, I
will sign papers and do whatever else is needed. I am the only author of
this code.
I agree it's important that every warning message can be avoided in case of
legitimate code.
(defmacro if-boundp (variable then &rest else)
(defmacro when-boundp (variable &rest body)
(defmacro if-fboundp (function then &rest else)
(defmacro when-fboundp (function &rest body)
These are unneeded in Emacs-CVS since the byte-compiler automatically
recognizes things like (if (boundp 'foo) ...).
(defmacro and-boundp (variable &rest args)
(defmacro and-fboundp (function &rest args)
It'd be better to extend our byte-compiler trick to handle `and'
additionally to if and cond.
(defmacro globally-declare-boundp (variables)
We already have that with the special form (defvar foo)
(defmacro globally-declare-fboundp (functions)
Such a feature would be very helpful. Someone recently suggested to use the
special form (defun foo) for that, which I think would be perfect.
(defmacro declare-boundp (variable)
(defmacro declare-fboundp (form)
(defmacro with-boundp (variables &rest body)
(defmacro with-fboundp (functions &rest body)
(defmacro with-byte-compiler-warnings-suppressed (type &rest
body)
(defmacro with-obsolete-variable (symbol &rest body)
(defmacro with-obsolete-function (symbol &rest body)
I'm all for it,
Stefan