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From: Joel Reicher <joel.reicher@gmail.com>
To: Heime via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
	<help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Cc: Heime <heimeborgia@protonmail.com>
Subject: Re: List Argument followed by &rest
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2024 22:09:06 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86ttb9ma3x.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f8a8DhLFGa1iszh9wAE1nCoZApnVElOlhiRcwxEzP841p5NuPLcFsCjhKD6uUQTLoZ8xjSAGu3lRveKVHgBLA2ZHb6qZ4h0Jc7xFOTt9rrQ=@protonmail.com> (Heime via Users list for the's message of "Sun, 08 Dec 2024 00:12:14 +0000")

Heime via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor 
<help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> writes:

> Consider the following function with an argument and with 
> &rest.
>
> The first argument is a list (if single element is provided,  it 
> is converted to a list).
>
> Thus I can write
>
>    (medha-kntlr 'armg basic substring)
>
> and
>
>    (medha-kntlr '(armg go) basic substring)
>
> And styles can also be considered as a list of arguments, am I 
> right?  Is this how it works?
>
> (defun medha-kntlr (seqr &rest styles)

Doesn't the "a b c d e" example at "(elisp) Argument List" answer 
this?

Is the documentation unclear?

Regards,

        - Joel



      reply	other threads:[~2024-12-12 11:09 UTC|newest]

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2024-12-08  0:12 List Argument followed by &rest Heime via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2024-12-12 11:09 ` Joel Reicher [this message]

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