From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "Dmitry Gutov" <dgutov@yandex.ru>, "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org>,
"Andreas Röhler" <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de>
Cc: 24353@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#24353: 25.1.1: looking-back wrong info
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2016 17:10:44 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <03e0c119-c9db-4d4a-890b-8b94f8cd4932@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <dd712e65-e17b-26b8-da1b-93d695e66614@yandex.ru>
> >>> How does this change help Emacs users?
> >>
> >> It forces Emacs Lisp programmers to include the last argument,
> >
> > It certainly does not. It does NOT force anything.
> > It only misleads. It doesn't even explicitly recommend.
>
> Well, at least the byte compiler sees the advertised calling convention,
> and warns when it's violated. So the encouragement is there.
That's true, and a good point.
It's misleading to show the signature wrong. It's
especially unhelpful to do ONLY that.
Encouragement, recommendation, admonition, and even warning,
can help. The more explicit, the better. The more it helps
users _understand_ (e.g., say WHY), the better.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-03 0:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-02 8:48 bug#24353: 25.1.1: looking-back wrong info Andreas Röhler
2016-09-02 8:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-09-02 9:57 ` Andreas Röhler
2016-09-02 10:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-09-02 17:51 ` Drew Adams
2016-09-02 19:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-09-02 20:10 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-09-02 23:59 ` Drew Adams
2016-09-03 0:03 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-09-03 0:10 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2016-09-03 0:14 ` npostavs
2016-09-03 0:15 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-09-03 0:28 ` Drew Adams
2016-09-03 17:35 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-09-03 18:10 ` Drew Adams
2016-09-03 18:24 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-09-03 18:31 ` npostavs
2016-09-03 18:57 ` Drew Adams
2016-09-04 13:08 ` Michael Heerdegen
2016-09-03 17:50 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-09-03 18:42 ` Drew Adams
2016-09-03 18:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
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[not found] ` <<83lgzael08.fsf@gnu.org>
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[not found] ` <<bf60cf1c-b9b9-4505-ab9f-d518dcf1725c@default>
[not found] ` <<83eg52dszc.fsf@gnu.org>
2016-09-02 20:03 ` Drew Adams
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