From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Constructed docstrings for closures
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2015 13:19:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8761c4b7si.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mw5g2t3g.fsf@lifelogs.com> (Ted Zlatanov's message of "Sun, 18 Jan 2015 07:04:03 -0500")
Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
> On Fri, 16 Jan 2015 11:18:26 -0500 Stefan Monnier
> <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA> wrote:
>
> SM> I'd like to lift this restriction by offering a new feature that lets us
> SM> do something like:
>
> SM> (lambda (foo bar)
> SM> <something-magical-here>
> SM> (code using foo and bar (and blabla as well)))
>
> SM> and get the closure we want with the docstring we want.
>
> SM> Does anyone have an idea of what the <something-magical-here>
> SM> could/should be?
>
> Would it be crazy to make it look like a `defun' docstring?
>
> (lambda (foo bar)
> "My docstring about FOO and BAR"
> (code using foo and bar (and blabla as well)))
Uh, that one has worked for decades already. The point was that the
docstring was to be _computed_ from a variable in the enclosing scope.
--
David Kastrup
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-01-18 12:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-01-16 16:18 Constructed docstrings for closures Stefan Monnier
2015-01-16 16:46 ` David Kastrup
2015-01-16 16:51 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2015-01-16 16:52 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2015-01-16 20:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-01-16 23:07 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-01-18 12:04 ` Ted Zlatanov
2015-01-18 12:19 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2015-01-18 18:15 ` Ted Zlatanov
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