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From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
To: 12884@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#12884: 24.2.50; defun*: argument lists in documentation look terrible
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 22:51:09 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wqxnkg4y.fsf@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvip980xz2.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Wed, 14 Nov 2012 14:49:08 -0500")

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> > | (my-toggle-item #:MODE-OR-VAR &key ((:selected #:ENABLED-SPEC) (\`
> > | (am-bound-and-true-p (quote (\, mode-or-var))))) ((:help
> > | #:HELP-STRING) (am-make-symbol-docstring mode-or-var)))
>
> Let me just say that I will resist the urge to tell you what I think
> about this style of argument list ;-)

Please don't resist.  What's wrong with it?

> > This looks terrible with all this #: and quote \, stuff.
>
> Binding print-quoted makes sense to improve the quote/backquote syntax.
> But I don't understand why we have those #: in there.  I understand it's
> there to say the symbols are not interned, but I don't understand why
> they're not interned.

See `cl--make-usage-args'.  It upcases the names of the arguments and
makes them a symbol again.  The one who wrote that wanted that no new
symbols are interned, and so used `make-symbol'.  Dunno if there's a
reason to do so.


- Michael.





  reply	other threads:[~2012-11-14 21:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-11-14 16:47 bug#12884: 24.2.50; defun*: argument lists in documentation look terrible Michael Heerdegen
2012-11-14 19:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-11-14 21:51   ` Michael Heerdegen [this message]
2012-11-15  1:28     ` Stefan Monnier

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