From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Michael Heerdegen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: (interactive) call or form? Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2018 11:32:15 +0200 Message-ID: <87h8omyrfk.fsf@web.de> References: <87a7uee4oc.fsf@mbork.pl> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1523179863 12256 195.159.176.226 (8 Apr 2018 09:31:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2018 09:31:03 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: Help Gnu Emacs mailing list To: Marcin Borkowski Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 08 11:30:58 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1f56f4-00033l-P6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 08 Apr 2018 11:30:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39670 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f56hA-0003wQ-2g for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 08 Apr 2018 05:33:08 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41087) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f56gc-0003vo-UY for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Apr 2018 05:32:35 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f56gZ-0004fj-PM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Apr 2018 05:32:34 -0400 Original-Received: from mout.web.de ([212.227.15.3]:52005) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f56gZ-0004dM-GR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Apr 2018 05:32:31 -0400 Original-Received: from drachen.dragon ([94.218.191.141]) by smtp.web.de (mrweb001 [213.165.67.108]) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0MPGym-1f9WXB17GS-004QJP; Sun, 08 Apr 2018 11:32:17 +0200 In-Reply-To: <87a7uee4oc.fsf@mbork.pl> (Marcin Borkowski's message of "Sun, 08 Apr 2018 05:52:29 +0200") X-Provags-ID: V03:K1:V9LSxl1wFiJzo+aEXkaXhWIPtEC9+vrzvL+5k+HGoJWk4QgEQiA 9VTG0C5WImmP1VX9HI90KyJnxxUHqgokezbiaWBZQgLkf4RwM7UUPHEjdQsLrrxgOBUfWKD zP8Hs9Fmy5nvwUBL71GO3md0RJw/iuJRFdQn3YdCPK+BGXzTY+/t6pUVrriFJ3l21ffm7n8 3MCszot4cG3XHhM3m1DwQ== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:X37T6tdMLQw=:EmceAdQDy58S81iTbxJudn 5aWbO4pNL0apX+vVVkIfvjmSmck/zJ8ymVAuZ34R/+NmOH+0mMyL7t5suM6eOUz+wmM03JfB6 h09YZ3IpULa5SLCet8B4GllPAO7lljCjHpOlEPWb7N9IdNHCyyanDzOA5tliLyRH7pjmyfR9Q Ct7ozB5ndc+H4IiNlIqiQ0EH+IZmEQVhZifrWAfyIWqoZCvkUah+toSEv6M1bkowThFP8dsUf 0Rn0HCMwOZnVPJ6VVyNA9p0TG5sLUbroi7D9KGccWZAXouHlztRCGOGHXAlUoT6arS44fy1Rg HThyE9TuIslUzMoJOdI1dMutGtM6TJ3GJgRCZP/ZJX9aTWBGG8Lz2qAUjQCP+U0YacKmCuUIa uUBXcWk9BOSA3o2/H5IqdOkI3NqAIaA1lsphZXQHoCASu30U/gtTfKS3ykzuyNFup9Fxco8Gu h6pN6eDDEfF1xamhMP4ywOw80C5DJk1VvacMRAZlLmlZsG+JFfDhqDr+vmCQUVB239ay2k0Z5 QgECPulk8oR9rZ7/eboRGy+pDqiZ3SZcSstSsdic0ogzalqcPa4Qg/GF87nfODYoJAClNFfNu 3P1gzAMH3y6u1ZkBGK8LBUM751o+e0srsZgoFN9Bl2RMuqduYqfcjuBTFpWMgJfyigGiiaLsk nzeUPFeg2o6Ipww7lXXI+2ibyjTrCpgYvz6dwwqfXbHGioTKjK04ezjaF7LjrDPHzvLoRwXSC jFF90BvNMhZ2uF63m41gswXrJi9IGwRuWbW/SGDbFi7TLNBHgPSdGF2978zZg2PlCKlDImZk X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 212.227.15.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:116402 Archived-At: Marcin Borkowski writes: > So, is it better to call it a "form" or a "call"? The manual very often calls it a "form", so it's probably ok to use this term. Personally I would prefer something else ("spec" maybe), to accentuate that it's rather something like a declaration: it's semantics imply more than the effect of calling it. Michael.