From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: coccinelle patch suggestion
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 23:03:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m28vf8ead6.fsf@igel.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <yxq1ul0brwp.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (Dan Nicolaescu's message of "Wed, 27 Jun 2012 13:12:22 -0400")
Dan Nicolaescu <dann@gnu.org> writes:
> Many lisp functions are declared in header files using the EXFUN macro,
> like this:
> EXFUN (Finteractive_form, 1);
>
> this might have been good when wanting to support both pre-standard C
> and standard C, but we don't support the former anymore.
It generates a prototype, which is useful in standard C.
> 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.
Andreas.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-27 21:03 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 [this message]
2012-06-28 0:06 ` John Wiegley
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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