From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: gazally@runbox.com, 28747@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#28747: 26.0.60; Usage of "&rest body" in Edebug specs
Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2019 10:20:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877e51i1tf.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1iLT1V-0000Ua-Ni@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Fri, 18 Oct 2019 10:14:33 -0400")
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> > I'm not sure this is worth the code churn, though -- as was pointed out,
> > virtually all the debug specs gets this right anyway. Does anybody have
> > an opinion?
>
> The benefit would be to simplify the specs for Edebug specs.
>
> The cost would be to fix the existing ones -- if they would need changing.
> Would any existing correct ones need changing?
They wouldn't need changing, but it'd be confusing (for people reading
the code) to have some specs with &repeat and some with &rest, so I
think we should change them all if we decide to introduce the &repeat
alias.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-10-19 8:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-10-08 15:02 bug#28747: 26.0.60; Usage of "&rest body" in Edebug specs Gemini Lasswell
2017-10-13 0:54 ` Noam Postavsky
2019-10-16 2:45 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-10-18 3:12 ` Richard Stallman
2019-10-18 3:35 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-10-18 14:14 ` Richard Stallman
2019-10-19 8:20 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2019-10-19 14:02 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-01-29 15:56 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-02-01 5:03 ` Richard Stallman
2022-01-29 23:25 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-01-31 2:21 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-01-31 2:30 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-01-31 2:35 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-01-31 2:44 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-01-31 3:00 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-01 8:49 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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