From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Andrea Corallo <akrl@sdf.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Inferred function types in the *Help* buffer
Date: Wed, 24 May 2023 13:46:57 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83o7manh0e.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xjfzg5v0zhj.fsf@ma.sdf.org> (message from Andrea Corallo on Tue, 23 May 2023 16:44:08 +0000)
> From: Andrea Corallo <akrl@sdf.org>
> Date: Tue, 23 May 2023 16:44:08 +0000
>
> foo is a native-compiled Lisp function in
> ‘~/.emacs.d/eln-cache/30.0.50-e29d76eb/test-a526a80f-5481bc95.eln’.
Why does it name the .eln file, not its source .el file? Or is this
the case when there's no .el file?
> Signature: (foo N)
>
> Inferred type: (function (t) (or (member to-small too-big) (integer
> 100 100)))
Can you explain what is this "Inferred type" information about?
> ATM I adds as well "Signature: " in front of the signature to
> differentiate it from the type. But looking at it in restrospective it
> might be not even necessary.
We should probably preserve the current format of just showing the
signature without any headings.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-05-24 10:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-05-23 16:44 Inferred function types in the *Help* buffer Andrea Corallo
2023-05-24 10:46 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2023-05-24 12:19 ` Andrea Corallo
2023-05-30 16:46 ` Andrea Corallo
2023-05-30 18:14 ` Mattias Engdegård
2023-05-30 18:48 ` Andrea Corallo
2023-05-31 12:19 ` Andrea Corallo
2023-05-31 14:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-01 11:28 ` Mattias Engdegård
2023-06-01 11:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-01 11:36 ` Mattias Engdegård
2023-06-01 11:54 ` Andrea Corallo
2023-06-01 11:50 ` Andrea Corallo
2023-06-01 13:06 ` Mattias Engdegård
2023-06-01 13:34 ` Andrea Corallo
2023-06-01 14:50 ` Mattias Engdegård
2023-06-01 15:10 ` Andrea Corallo
2023-06-01 17:53 ` Mattias Engdegård
2023-06-01 19:13 ` Andrea Corallo
2023-06-01 14:09 ` Andrea Corallo
2023-05-31 13:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-01 8:42 ` Andrea Corallo
2023-06-01 8:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2023-05-23 16:47 Payas Relekar
2023-05-23 18:51 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-05-24 12:20 ` Andrea Corallo
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