xsymbol (was: subr.el (21.5.31) for 21.5.29)

> On Tue, 18 Oct 2011 21:00:54 +0100, Aidan Kehoe > <kehoea(a)parhasard.net&gt; wrote:

Ar an cúigiú lá de mí Deireadh Fómhair, scríobh Stephen J. Turnbull:

> Uwe Brauer writes: > > > >> Regarding Re: subr.el (21.5.31) for 21.5.29; > > >> "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; adds: > > > As far as I can see you submitted a C patch and when we > > talked about last time you found that patch too, hm > > aggressive. I strongly vote to apply it, since I > > have not found any problems so far, > > No, *you* won't see any problems with it. The > problems are entirely a matter of style and clean > internal APIs. I think it was Aidan (or maybe Ben) > who deliberately changed that particular API in a > backward incompatible way.

As it happens it was me; once the problem was reported, I was mostly shocked to see that the API was being used at all. I would support reverting to the old API in core.