From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com>,
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: JSON->lisp Mapping: Hash vs AList
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2017 16:54:30 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <32a26add-6f2a-fb29-d351-f6ecdf15491a@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAArVCkQzyau3E9VVxOKeturkDXKAdpBnBNqEEsBuP-P4NVwGXQ@mail.gmail.com>
Philipp Stephani wrote:
> I don't like optional arguments. They make the call sites less readable,
> because it becomes less clear what the meaning of an argument is.
That depends on the case, and on the reader. Requiring keywords can make callers
less readable due to clutter, and arguably that is the case here.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-12-17 0:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-12-12 1:39 JSON->lisp Mapping: Hash vs AList raman
2017-12-12 13:08 ` Nicolas Petton
2017-12-12 15:52 ` raman
2017-12-13 22:37 ` Philipp Stephani
2017-12-14 0:00 ` T.V Raman
2017-12-14 16:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-12-16 22:24 ` Philipp Stephani
2017-12-17 15:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-12-17 17:44 ` Philipp Stephani
2017-12-17 20:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-12-18 19:55 ` Philipp Stephani
2017-12-18 20:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-12-18 20:59 ` Philipp Stephani
2017-12-19 3:50 ` Vibhav Pant
2017-12-19 17:49 ` Philipp Stephani
2017-12-19 17:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-12-19 17:22 ` Philipp Stephani
2017-12-18 16:15 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2017-12-19 17:50 ` Philipp Stephani
2017-12-15 4:13 ` Vibhav Pant
2017-12-16 22:25 ` Philipp Stephani
2017-12-18 20:26 ` [PATCH] Accept alists when serializing JSON Philipp Stephani
2017-12-20 5:58 ` Vibhav Pant
2017-12-22 13:55 ` Philipp Stephani
2017-12-24 17:16 ` Vibhav Pant
2017-12-26 20:46 ` Philipp Stephani
2017-12-24 13:00 ` Philipp Stephani
2017-12-16 22:34 ` JSON->lisp Mapping: Hash vs AList Stefan Monnier
2017-12-16 22:38 ` Philipp Stephani
2017-12-17 0:54 ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2017-12-17 2:41 ` Stefan Monnier
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