From: Tomas Hlavaty <tom@logand.com>
To: Andrea Corallo <acorallo@gnu.org>, Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Declaring Lisp function types
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2024 19:10:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87edczyu46.fsf@neko.mail-host-address-is-not-set> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <yp18r376udj.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>
On Mon 26 Feb 2024 at 11:52, Andrea Corallo <acorallo@gnu.org> wrote:
> ATM we have several function type declarations kept in a different file
> and naturally they get out of sync over time.
What happens when they get out of sync?
> So yes one reason is to move the declarations where functions are
> actually defined.
What happens when they are wrong?
> These declarations are in use by the native compiler in order to help
> generating better code, computing automatically the function signature
> of non type declared functions (signatures which we present in C-h f)
Do you have a specific example?
(describe-function 'car)
and
(describe-function 'sort)
do not show any signature in emacs 28.2
> and (hope in the close future) aid the programmer by performing extra
> error checking at compile time.
How is this different from CL:CHECK-TYPE?
Would CL:CHECK-TYPE be sufficient?
(eww "clhs check-type")
https://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/m_check_.htm
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-02-26 18:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 72+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-02-23 16:02 Declaring Lisp function types Andrea Corallo
2024-02-23 23:35 ` Adam Porter
2024-02-24 7:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-02-24 8:53 ` Tomas Hlavaty
2024-02-24 9:08 ` Adam Porter
2024-02-24 9:24 ` Andrea Corallo
2024-02-24 15:13 ` Tomas Hlavaty
2024-02-24 15:21 ` Tomas Hlavaty
2024-02-24 15:24 ` Tomas Hlavaty
2024-02-24 8:56 ` Adam Porter
2024-02-24 10:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-02-25 7:35 ` Adam Porter
2024-02-24 9:21 ` Andrea Corallo
2024-02-25 17:04 ` Alan Mackenzie
2024-02-25 17:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-02-25 17:16 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2024-02-26 16:25 ` Andrea Corallo
2024-02-29 3:50 ` Richard Stallman
2024-02-29 6:10 ` Adam Porter
2024-02-29 9:02 ` Andrea Corallo
2024-02-26 3:38 ` Richard Stallman
2024-02-26 16:38 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2024-02-26 16:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-02-26 17:44 ` Andrea Corallo
2024-02-26 16:52 ` Andrea Corallo
2024-02-26 18:10 ` Tomas Hlavaty [this message]
2024-03-02 21:19 ` Stefan Monnier via Emacs development discussions.
2024-03-03 9:52 ` Andrea Corallo
2024-03-03 14:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2024-03-03 17:31 ` Andrea Corallo
2024-03-03 18:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2024-03-15 16:49 ` Andrea Corallo
2024-03-15 18:19 ` Tomas Hlavaty
2024-03-15 18:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-03-16 13:39 ` Tomas Hlavaty
2024-03-16 14:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-03-16 14:56 ` Tomas Hlavaty
2024-03-16 15:43 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-03-16 15:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-03-16 15:54 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-03-18 8:55 ` Lele Gaifax
2024-03-16 0:01 ` Adam Porter
2024-03-18 9:25 ` Andrea Corallo
2024-03-26 10:13 ` Andrea Corallo
2024-03-26 10:28 ` Christopher Dimech
2024-03-26 12:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-03-26 16:46 ` Andrea Corallo
2024-04-29 17:48 ` Andrea Corallo
2024-04-29 17:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2024-04-29 18:42 ` Andrea Corallo
2024-04-30 14:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-04-30 18:29 ` Stefan Monnier
2024-05-01 20:57 ` Andrea Corallo
2024-05-01 21:06 ` Stefan Monnier
2024-05-02 6:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-05-02 10:16 ` Andrea Corallo
2024-05-02 6:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-05-02 10:12 ` Andrea Corallo
2024-05-02 11:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-05-02 13:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2024-05-01 20:54 ` Andrea Corallo
2024-05-02 10:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-05-02 15:18 ` Andrea Corallo
2024-05-02 16:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-03-26 13:05 ` Mattias Engdegård
2024-03-26 13:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2024-03-26 14:28 ` Joost Kremers
2024-03-26 14:37 ` Stefan Monnier
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2024-03-16 7:46 Arthur Miller
2024-03-16 15:46 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-03-18 9:02 ` Andrea Corallo
2024-03-18 9:58 ` Arthur Miller
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