From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com>
Cc: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: check argument count in defcustom :safe?
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2015 07:59:31 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvpp79d0dm.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAArVCkRUCUMMEHJFae9SJ+_6ngtzAL9s5H6NaQB4-XG6q_6O5g@mail.gmail.com> (Philipp Stephani's message of "Sun, 12 Apr 2015 06:45:04 +0000")
> But most functions are well-behaved and don't impose additional
> restrictions over those expressed in their parameter declaration; in these
> cases inspecting the argument list using help-function-arglist should work
> well enough.
I'm just pointing out that the concept is fundamentally flawed, even if
you can hack something that will behave acceptably in most cases.
Stefan
prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-04-12 11:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-04-11 15:42 check argument count in defcustom :safe? Stephen Leake
2015-04-12 3:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-04-12 6:45 ` Philipp Stephani
2015-04-12 10:00 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-04-12 11:59 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
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