From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: John Wiegley <jwiegley@gmail.com>
Cc: p.stephani2@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Small docstring improvements
Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2016 10:10:51 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83r39jdif8.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2twegv9gv.fsf@newartisans.com> (message from John Wiegley on Fri, 19 Aug 2016 12:34:40 -0700)
> From: John Wiegley <jwiegley@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2016 12:34:40 -0700
> Cc: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
>
> PS> +If START is a string, then send that string to the process +instead of
> PS> any buffer contents; END is ignored.
>
> This is a horrible abuse. There should be another function
> `call-process-with-string'.
I disagree with you about the abuse: it sounds polymorphic to me. But
maybe that's because I'm too used to this paradigm.
In any case, that ship has sailed long ago: we have this feature in
this and other functions for as long as I can remember, and they are
used in quite a few places.
> I don't like the way that "START" has three separate meanings, only one of
> which has anything to do with beginning a START of something.
Once again, I don't see why you dislike that. Lisp is not C.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-08-20 7:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-19 19:26 Small docstring improvements Philipp Stephani
2016-08-19 19:34 ` John Wiegley
2016-08-19 20:34 ` Philipp Stephani
2016-08-19 21:12 ` John Wiegley
2016-08-19 22:04 ` Drew Adams
2016-08-20 0:24 ` John Wiegley
2016-08-20 7:10 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2016-08-20 23:17 ` John Wiegley
2016-08-19 21:59 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-08-20 7:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-08-20 13:52 ` Philipp Stephani
2016-08-20 15:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-08-20 15:59 ` Philipp Stephani
2016-08-20 16:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-08-20 18:00 ` Philipp Stephani
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