From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: master e971ce6: Make autoloads populate a new definition-prefixes table Date: Fri, 27 May 2016 09:39:10 +0300 Message-ID: <83shx40zu9.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20160526025822.15529.80475@vcs.savannah.gnu.org> <20160526025822.4D91A220153@vcs.savannah.gnu.org> <83y46w22gw.fsf@gnu.org> <83twhk1tss.fsf@gnu.org> <87r3copla6.fsf@web.de> <5747ACD9.3090001@cs.ucla.edu> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1464331183 388 80.91.229.3 (27 May 2016 06:39:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 27 May 2016 06:39:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: michael_heerdegen@web.de, Emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 27 08:39:43 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1b6BQs-0003O8-Pb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 May 2016 08:39:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44322 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b6BQs-0002qB-1K for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 May 2016 02:39:42 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60031) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b6BQK-0002px-NM for Emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 May 2016 02:39:09 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b6BQG-0002rb-FA for Emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 May 2016 02:39:07 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:48950) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b6BQG-0002rO-B3; Fri, 27 May 2016 02:39:04 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:3001 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1b6BQE-0006u8-Ep; Fri, 27 May 2016 02:39:02 -0400 In-reply-to: <5747ACD9.3090001@cs.ucla.edu> (message from Paul Eggert on Thu, 26 May 2016 19:11:37 -0700) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:204066 Archived-At: > From: Paul Eggert > Date: Thu, 26 May 2016 19:11:37 -0700 > Cc: Emacs Development > > Michael Heerdegen wrote: > > AFAIU the patch indeed doesn't distinguish "arglist ()" > > and "no arglist specified" - it treats both as "arglist ()". > > Clearly I missed the distinction between the two. Sorry about that. I installed > the attached patch to master, which should fix things. Thanks for reporting it. Thanks. Could we please have a more prominent documentation of this feature? The doc string doesn't actually explain the special significance of omitting the arglist, except by an indirect hint, and the ELisp manual says even less. We shouldn't leave these subtleties unsaid. TIA