From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: ELisp function prototypes and local function name Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2011 21:27:50 -0500 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <87mxk27q3d.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <87ei5fqz6h.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87k4f7pe2f.fsf@lifelogs.com> <874o6arjpz.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1302143300 5309 80.91.229.12 (7 Apr 2011 02:28:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2011 02:28:20 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 07 04:28:15 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q7exC-0008Mz-9x for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Apr 2011 04:28:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52962 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q7exB-00022P-OV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Apr 2011 22:28:13 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=36587 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q7ex6-00021y-9v for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Apr 2011 22:28:09 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q7ex4-0002HL-PB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Apr 2011 22:28:08 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:36520) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q7ex4-0002Go-Im for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Apr 2011 22:28:06 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q7ewz-0008Fg-Cd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Apr 2011 04:28:01 +0200 Original-Received: from c-67-186-102-106.hsd1.il.comcast.net ([67.186.102.106]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 07 Apr 2011 04:28:01 +0200 Original-Received: from tzz by c-67-186-102-106.hsd1.il.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 07 Apr 2011 04:28:01 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-67-186-102-106.hsd1.il.comcast.net X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6; d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" User-Agent: Gnus/5.110016 (No Gnus v0.16) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:KzVEaTWXOMkgy1UGwicWpnekVOA= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:138271 Archived-At: On Thu, 07 Apr 2011 09:25:12 +0900 "Stephen J. Turnbull" wrote: SJT> Ted Zlatanov writes: >> That seems nasty, taking text documentation and splitting it back to get >> the function arguments. SJT> function-arglist? `help-function-arglist' is almost there... (format "%S" (help-function-arglist 'mapc)) => (arg1 arg2 &rest rest) But it doesn't correspond to the advertised prototype "(mapc FUNCTION SEQUENCE)" and loses the argument names. It uses `subr-arity' which I can examine, but that doesn't tell me the names of the arguments either. Ted