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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Andrea Corallo <akrl@sdf.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Inferred function types in the *Help* buffer
Date: Wed, 24 May 2023 13:46:57 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83o7manh0e.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xjfzg5v0zhj.fsf@ma.sdf.org> (message from Andrea Corallo on Tue,  23 May 2023 16:44:08 +0000)

> From: Andrea Corallo <akrl@sdf.org>
> Date: Tue, 23 May 2023 16:44:08 +0000
> 
> foo is a native-compiled Lisp function in
> ‘~/.emacs.d/eln-cache/30.0.50-e29d76eb/test-a526a80f-5481bc95.eln’.

Why does it name the .eln file, not its source .el file?  Or is this
the case when there's no .el file?

> Signature: (foo N)
> 
> Inferred type: (function (t) (or (member to-small too-big) (integer
> 100 100)))

Can you explain what is this "Inferred type" information about?

> ATM I adds as well "Signature: " in front of the signature to
> differentiate it from the type.  But looking at it in restrospective it
> might be not even necessary.

We should probably preserve the current format of just showing the
signature without any headings.



  reply	other threads:[~2023-05-24 10:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-05-23 16:44 Inferred function types in the *Help* buffer Andrea Corallo
2023-05-24 10:46 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2023-05-24 12:19   ` Andrea Corallo
2023-05-30 16:46     ` Andrea Corallo
2023-05-30 18:14       ` Mattias Engdegård
2023-05-30 18:48         ` Andrea Corallo
2023-05-31 12:19           ` Andrea Corallo
2023-05-31 14:08             ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-01 11:28             ` Mattias Engdegård
2023-06-01 11:35               ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-01 11:36                 ` Mattias Engdegård
2023-06-01 11:54                   ` Andrea Corallo
2023-06-01 11:50               ` Andrea Corallo
2023-06-01 13:06                 ` Mattias Engdegård
2023-06-01 13:34                   ` Andrea Corallo
2023-06-01 14:50                     ` Mattias Engdegård
2023-06-01 15:10                       ` Andrea Corallo
2023-06-01 17:53                         ` Mattias Engdegård
2023-06-01 19:13                           ` Andrea Corallo
2023-06-01 14:09                   ` Andrea Corallo
2023-05-31 13:46       ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-01  8:42         ` Andrea Corallo
2023-06-01  8:53           ` Eli Zaretskii
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2023-05-23 16:47 Payas Relekar
2023-05-23 18:51 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-05-24 12:20 ` Andrea Corallo

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