From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Gemini Lasswell <gazally@runbox.com>
Cc: 28747@debbugs.gnu.org, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: bug#28747: 26.0.60; Usage of "&rest body" in Edebug specs
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2022 03:21:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ee4o4pch.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvzgne162k.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier via's message of "Sat, 29 Jan 2022 18:25:55 -0500")
Stefan Monnier via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of
text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> writes:
>> Does anyone have thoughts on the idea of adding &repeat as a synonym
>> for &rest in Edebug specs, with the goal of moving &rest towards
>> obsolescence eventually?
>
> I like the idea. Only problem I can see is that it doesn't
> solve the problem for `&optional`.
I guess it could also lead to problems in third-party packages that use
the edebug specs themselves -- they expect symbols tagged up with &rest
and get &repeat instead, breaking their code.
I'm not sure how serious a problem that is, though.
--
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-01-31 2:21 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
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 [this message]
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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