From: "tomas@tuxteam.de" <tomas@tuxteam.de>
To: arthur miller <arthur.miller@live.com>
Cc: "emacs-devel@gnu.org" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Docs for &optional and &rest arguments together
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2020 20:40:40 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201231194040.GA26414@tuxteam.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AM0PR06MB6577E3D461AC55FBA72BB37496D60@AM0PR06MB6577.eurprd06.prod.outlook.com>
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On Thu, Dec 31, 2020 at 05:08:10PM +0000, arthur miller wrote:
> It Is flera för me hos it work. What I am saying is that docs does not say that we can't omit "optional" c or d when &rest is used. In the examples you are illustrating with, one can't omit say d and write (foo a b c e), both c and d are required, so user has to pass explicitly at least nil if not d is provided: (foo a b c nil e)
>
> Documentation is talking about being able to omit either optional or rest arga, but does not touch on the case when one pass both optional and rest together. In that case optional is not optional any longer.
>
> I don't understand why is it so difficult to see what I am talking about :-).
I know, it's difficult. It's as difficult for me to see your point.
I'm not being deliberately dense (I take you don't assume that
either). At least not more than I am by nature :)
> Anyway: Happy new year's eve and all best in 2021!
Likewise. All the best!
Cheers
- t
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Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-29 13:26 Docs for &optional and &rest arguments together Arthur Miller
2020-12-29 15:10 ` Adam Porter
2020-12-29 17:06 ` arthur miller
2021-01-01 14:33 ` Arthur Miller
2020-12-30 3:12 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-12-30 12:19 ` Arthur Miller
2020-12-30 12:54 ` Yuri Khan
2020-12-31 4:43 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-12-31 7:55 ` arthur miller
2020-12-31 11:26 ` tomas
2020-12-31 16:45 ` Drew Adams
2020-12-31 17:04 ` Drew Adams
2020-12-31 17:28 ` arthur miller
2020-12-31 18:19 ` Drew Adams
2020-12-31 20:01 ` arthur miller
2020-12-31 20:27 ` Drew Adams
2020-12-31 17:08 ` arthur miller
2020-12-31 17:30 ` Daniel Brooks
2020-12-31 19:53 ` arthur miller
2020-12-31 19:40 ` tomas [this message]
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2020-12-31 20:04 arthur miller
2020-12-31 20:35 ` tomas
2020-12-31 23:18 ` arthur miller
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