From: "John Wiegley" <johnw@newartisans.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: coccinelle patch suggestion
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 19:06:07 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m262ac8fm8.fsf@newartisans.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m28vf8ead6.fsf@igel.home> (Andreas Schwab's message of "Wed, 27 Jun 2012 23:03:01 +0200")
>>>>> Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> writes:
>> And EXFUN just adds an unneeded level of obfuscation that doesn't help code
>> readability.
> It tells you that it's a Lisp function with N arguments. That's easier to
> read than when you need to count them.
Also, it forms a meaningful parallel with DEFUN. When I read an EXFUN
declaration, I know that there's a matching DEFUN. This is not true of
everything other function that has a prototype.
John
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-28 0:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-27 17:12 coccinelle patch suggestion Dan Nicolaescu
2012-06-27 21:03 ` Andreas Schwab
2012-06-28 0:06 ` John Wiegley [this message]
2012-06-28 12:39 ` Dmitry Antipov
2012-06-28 18:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-06-29 16:36 ` Tom Tromey
2012-07-02 18:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-07-02 19:05 ` Tom Tromey
2012-07-03 13:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-07-02 15:40 ` Samuel Bronson
2012-07-02 17:11 ` Tom Tromey
2012-06-27 21:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-06-27 21:45 ` Dan Nicolaescu
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