From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Should prefix variable be used in function argument list Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2022 20:11:02 +0200 Message-ID: <87k08na30p.fsf@dataswamp.org> References: <87let3mrji.fsf@posteo.net> <874jzrbiew.fsf@dataswamp.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="9969"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:h+SPRYwP5/Dqp8G55FuN2llcxsA= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 08 20:16:47 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1o9sX0-0002Nn-3F for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 08 Jul 2022 20:16:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58672 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o9sWy-00085c-ML for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 08 Jul 2022 14:16:44 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:48700) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o9sVQ-00085S-Ok for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Jul 2022 14:15:08 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:42992) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o9sVM-0001wF-Kv for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Jul 2022 14:15:06 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1o9sVJ-0000Cc-RC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Jul 2022 20:15:01 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:138387 Archived-At: >> No, I don't think there is any general rule here. >> Some functions are meant for interactive use only > > Don't pick up a habit doing that ... Check out the theory on MVC for why ... Check out the practice of annoying little Elisp pointers in help mode for why ... Actually they are useful! So the annoyance should be directed at the practice which they try to correct at a later stage. That would be more fair. -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal