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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Andrew Hyatt <ahyatt@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: pcase defuns
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2022 23:48:05 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1ngeqT-0007La-Qh@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m235ibfjl7.fsf@andrews-mbp.lan> (message from Andrew Hyatt on Sun, 17 Apr 2022 18:09:24 -0400)

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  > Thanks for the suggestion.  I've implemented a new version along 
  > the lines you suggested.  So now things look like:

  > (defun-pattern fibonacci (n)
  >     "Compute the fibonacci sequence."

The doc string should use the arguments
and describe what an individual call does.
Thusm

    Return the Nth fibonacci number.

Aside from that, I have no further comments.
I don't have an opinion about how useful this is.




      reply	other threads:[~2022-04-19  3:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-12-19  4:53 pcase defuns Andrew Hyatt
2021-12-19  8:34 ` Tassilo Horn
2021-12-19 15:33   ` Andrew Hyatt
2021-12-19 17:16     ` Tassilo Horn
2021-12-19 19:05       ` Stefan Monnier
2021-12-20  5:56         ` Tassilo Horn
2021-12-22 14:07   ` LdBeth
2021-12-19 17:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-12-19 21:08   ` Andrew Hyatt
2021-12-21  4:15     ` Richard Stallman
2021-12-21  5:20       ` Andrew Hyatt
2021-12-22  4:18         ` Richard Stallman
2021-12-23  1:52           ` Andrew Hyatt
2021-12-24  4:13             ` Richard Stallman
2021-12-21 15:32     ` Stefan Monnier
2021-12-20  4:43 ` Richard Stallman
2021-12-23  2:30 ` Po Lu
2022-03-26 17:41 ` Andrew Hyatt
2022-03-27  9:31   ` Stefan Monnier
2022-03-27 18:17     ` Andrew Hyatt
2022-03-28  4:15   ` Richard Stallman
2022-03-30  1:28     ` Andrew Hyatt
2022-03-31  4:27       ` Richard Stallman
2022-04-17 22:09         ` Andrew Hyatt
2022-04-19  3:48           ` Richard Stallman [this message]

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