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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





      reply	other threads:[~2010-06-03  1:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-02 22:07 bug#6335: 24.0.50; doc for define-minor-mode: specify ARG Drew Adams
2010-06-03  1:54 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]

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