From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>,
"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 23:10:02 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1a485a01-87cd-db03-4a0b-2e9033754c46@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bf60cf1c-b9b9-4505-ab9f-d518dcf1725c@default>
On 02.09.2016 20:51, Drew Adams wrote:
> How does this change help Emacs users?
It forces Emacs Lisp programmers to include the last argument, thus
making their code likely faster. Users like faster programs.
> If it is so important that people provide LIMIT then spell
> that out _explicitly_ in the doc as a recommendation.
That's very easy to miss. And like Eli said, the choice was between this
and _actually_ changing the signature. I imagine you would like the
latter choice even less.
> It
> should be a no-no to just change the advertized signature of
> a function, without changing the actual signature (code) and
> without otherwise changing the doc.
You have some point there, but mentioning the last argument in the
docstring would be rather awkward, considering it's absent in the
advertised signature.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-02 20:10 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 [this message]
2016-09-02 23:59 ` Drew Adams
2016-09-03 0:03 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-09-03 0:10 ` Drew Adams
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] ` <<bf60cf1c-b9b9-4505-ab9f-d518dcf1725c@default>
[not found] ` <<83eg52dszc.fsf@gnu.org>
2016-09-02 20:03 ` Drew Adams
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