From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?B?R8O2a3R1xJ8=?= Kayaalp Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Gather a list of confusions beginner tend to have Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2020 14:22:22 +0300 Message-ID: <878sdbs2s1.fsf@gkayaalp.com> References: <6936F2AB-0968-42B5-9914-56538608A42C@gmail.com> <903b50f6-ccb9-1214-405e-dbdd30b9d0f2@online.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="8771"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: mu4e 1.2.0; emacs 28.0.50 Cc: Andreas =?utf-8?Q?R=C3=B6hler?= To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 15 13:23:13 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kI93I-0002Bw-Ec for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 15 Sep 2020 13:23:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36788 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kI93H-0003D2-GW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 15 Sep 2020 07:23:11 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:60864) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kI92d-0002fX-2C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Sep 2020 07:22:31 -0400 Original-Received: from relay8-d.mail.gandi.net ([217.70.183.201]:45929) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kI92Z-0000gk-Mv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Sep 2020 07:22:30 -0400 X-Originating-IP: 31.177.204.112 Original-Received: from localhost (unknown [31.177.204.112]) (Authenticated sender: self@gkayaalp.com) by relay8-d.mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 21A341BF206; Tue, 15 Sep 2020 11:22:23 +0000 (UTC) In-reply-to: Received-SPF: none client-ip=217.70.183.201; envelope-from=self@gkayaalp.com; helo=relay8-d.mail.gandi.net X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/09/15 07:22:24 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = Linux 3.11 and newer [fuzzy] X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H2=-0.001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_NONE=0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:255732 Archived-At: On 2020-09-15 11:21 +03, Robert Pluim wrote: > Is this something missing in Emacs, or is it that some documentation > strings don=CA=BCt tell you this? If the latter, point them out and we'll > try to fix them. Don=E2=80=99t have examples handy but I do find myself perplexed as to pass= in a symbol or a string at times. Even if both is okay, IMHO it=E2=80=99s nice practice to express that precisely. But also it=E2=80=99d be real cool if we had gradual typing in Emacs, e.g. = some =E2=80=98declare-type=E2=80=99 function that can assign type info to symbol= s which can they be used for static checks and docstrings. We already do something similar in spirit with defcustoms, don=E2=80=99t we? --=20 =C4=B0. G=C3=B6ktu=C4=9F Kayaalp / @cadadr / pgp: 024C 30DD 597D 142B 49AC 40EB 465C D949 B101 2427