From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Andreas_R=F6hler?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: documenting argument types Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 11:23:38 +0100 Message-ID: <5305D7AA.7090704@online.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1392891610 16965 80.91.229.3 (20 Feb 2014 10:20:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 10:20:10 +0000 (UTC) To: Emacs developers Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 20 11:20:18 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WGQjn-0000vV-K3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Feb 2014 11:20:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37265 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WGQjZ-000092-E1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Feb 2014 05:20:01 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44996) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WGQjQ-00007t-5W for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Feb 2014 05:19:59 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WGQjI-000330-Se for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Feb 2014 05:19:52 -0500 Original-Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.171]:56094) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WGQjI-00032Y-JB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Feb 2014 05:19:44 -0500 Original-Received: from purzel.sitgens (brln-4dba194c.pool.mediaWays.net [77.186.25.76]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mreue004) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0MDTqb-1WUTbc0gu5-00Gtrn; Thu, 20 Feb 2014 11:19:41 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0 X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:alXDJefjfI6LZIKKWShvq8Sl3PTLhqYkxiWBE6l9erD KVcz5ulvO6L7CAbUOSkKyS5rMKy+JPfUiDCke0fa/LyJpKYLXr CBIiF2C2FDNkdacX2T9mUmh6v6olgYbJTDP01gwrd9EI2QFaAD 04gaukdk+UfDLXt8HM4d/2OZ1te9LkVe/lWv2AS8O7jitSyFNR Q8rbN/KHEf7QlM/fK3iIxVafGfr1znpYGCWMBh+gEjDa1r505h zkwvMOSVEyE21/TSqPcsEd7+nSaTCEr3jSpPryQ+Cor6PYZpn6 GtmIclefolHeoX7RPOLFu15riltwuUZ2boV8oAyyZ7hzfu+VJF JjEHBIvsz45W37W3upSc= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 212.227.126.171 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:169781 Archived-At: It would help Emacs Lisp beginners and others too, if argument types are documented. For example when it's said ;;;;;; add-to-list is a compiled Lisp function in `subr.el'. (add-to-list LIST-VAR ELEMENT &optional APPEND COMPARE-FN) ;;;;;; would expected down there something like LIST-VAR - quoted symbol ELEMENT - any emacs-lisp-type APPEND - boolean COMPARE-FN - quoted function