From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#66928: [PATCH 2/2] Update names to match the docstring Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2023 09:09:57 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87cywpwuid.fsf@jeremybryant.net> <878r7dw2i0.fsf@jeremybryant.net> Reply-To: Stefan Monnier Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="32218"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Cc: 66928@debbugs.gnu.org To: Jeremy Bryant Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 05 15:10:51 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1qzdpy-0008D1-1M for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 05 Nov 2023 15:10:50 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qzdpe-0000eY-Ba; Sun, 05 Nov 2023 09:10:30 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qzdpa-0000eQ-Sc for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Nov 2023 09:10:27 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:5::43]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qzdpZ-0005k2-GF for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Nov 2023 09:10:26 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1qzdqA-0001WY-6q for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Nov 2023 09:11:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Stefan Monnier Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2023 14:11:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 66928 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: patch Original-Received: via spool by 66928-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B66928.16991934445834 (code B ref 66928); Sun, 05 Nov 2023 14:11:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 66928) by debbugs.gnu.org; 5 Nov 2023 14:10:44 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36356 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1qzdps-0001W1-8b for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 05 Nov 2023 09:10:44 -0500 Original-Received: from mailscanner.iro.umontreal.ca ([132.204.25.50]:21481) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1qzdpq-0001Vj-Fb for 66928@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 05 Nov 2023 09:10:43 -0500 Original-Received: from pmg3.iro.umontreal.ca (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pmg3.iro.umontreal.ca (Proxmox) with ESMTP id CE0D8441AA7; Sun, 5 Nov 2023 09:09:59 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=iro.umontreal.ca; s=mail; t=1699193399; bh=CtThLhNbMUAhkm0+Mo+19G/dlaVP5FXzuSlYTI7nAdE=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:Date:From; b=hGY+xZewuoSnG8Nh7HlM8OzcAvwbmk/Xboii8GsFsu4iLYVPw78UZTqQF6rlUulF4 fUgjQZOkMnGK/pd5XzaNGTHSEOHckNJxQGqyydA9kBRbbk1Ldcqs8Jqs7q44NHbVbd nVJImkMsbtcXtBkYcniH6eBzbIYAlROjqJ+PTk0C3E2p8vqKdEPAnPbAVnvgxe8S8v /cIDUtfqf2++LzBFTTRfjaGU1JU1J51+qtDaQqpxrpGUmaq3Ls+ZrylLeDLTXsUphg QgiBWgP0GIpMiPdPzL3BDuyA13Sb6R6heRUNA6+x9055Udxhc7rfLiJEIJNYABlIA9 UV2l2fmO9IRYw== Original-Received: from mail01.iro.umontreal.ca (unknown [172.31.2.1]) by pmg3.iro.umontreal.ca (Proxmox) with ESMTP id EBD334419AE; Sun, 5 Nov 2023 09:09:58 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from pastel (unknown [45.72.195.71]) by mail01.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id AC35B1203A2; Sun, 5 Nov 2023 09:09:58 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <878r7dw2i0.fsf@jeremybryant.net> (Jeremy Bryant's message of "Sat, 04 Nov 2023 22:56:14 +0000") X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:273822 Archived-At: > One question, the elisp manual mentions that the \(fn ARGLIST) facility > is particularly useful for macros. > > Why would we use this for defuns? We use it for some defuns where ELisp's arglist functionality is not refined enough to express the intention of the programmer. For example, the "real" arglist may be name args &optional docstring &rest body but the intended arglist is name args [docstring] &rest body i.e. if `docstring` is not a string it's taken as the first instruction of `body`. Stefan