From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
Cc: 12884@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#12884: 24.2.50; defun*: argument lists in documentation look terrible
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 14:49:08 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvip980xz2.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ip985dyf.fsf@web.de> (Michael Heerdegen's message of "Wed, 14 Nov 2012 17:47:20 +0100")
> | (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 ;-)
> 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.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-11-14 19:49 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 [this message]
2012-11-14 21:51 ` Michael Heerdegen
2012-11-15 1:28 ` Stefan Monnier
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