Re: Compatibility aliases, defsubsts, and macros...

[Bill Wohler]

Miles Bader <address@hidden> wrote:

> 2006/1/31, Bill Wohler <address@hidden>:
> > > #2 is very important; the bad old practice of just defining the
> > > standard functions on systems which didn't have it built in (as you
> > > demonstrate) caused many problems.
> >
> > Just out of curiosity, do you remember the problems?
> 
> It intereferes with other packages that are trying to test the
> environment by probing the existance or non-existance of certain
> functions.

"Bing." Lightbulb goes off. Got it. Of course. Thanks.

Fixing those baddies in MH-E now before you notice ;-).

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