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From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Constructed docstrings for closures
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2015 07:04:03 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mw5g2t3g.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: jwvsifasnzb.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org

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)))

Ted




  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-01-18 12:04 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 [this message]
2015-01-18 12:19   ` David Kastrup
2015-01-18 18:15     ` Ted Zlatanov

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