From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Subject: bug#6335: 24.0.50; doc for define-minor-mode: specify ARG
Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2010 21:54:43 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv1vcorif7.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C1636476D2C0470DB47E13850DE233EA@us.oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Wed, 2 Jun 2010 15:07:28 -0700")
> (cond ((integer arg) (if (> arg 0) do-foo do-fa))
> ((consp arg) ...)
> (arg ...)
> (t ...))
I do not want to support this.
> The doc should also state clearly that the _raw prefix argument_ is used
> as ARG interactively.
It's not the case.
> Programmers can then take advantage of that fact also. Knowing this,
> they can easily define a minor-mode command that lets users pass
> a significant value via a prefix arg.
And I don't want to support this either.
If people want to write functions that behave somewhat like minor modes
but with slightly different calling conventions, they can do that just
fine with `defun'.
Stefan
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2010-06-02 22:07 bug#6335: 24.0.50; doc for define-minor-mode: specify ARG Drew Adams
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