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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: michael_heerdegen@web.de, Emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: master e971ce6: Make autoloads populate a new definition-prefixes table
Date: Fri, 27 May 2016 09:39:10 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83shx40zu9.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5747ACD9.3090001@cs.ucla.edu> (message from Paul Eggert on Thu,  26 May 2016 19:11:37 -0700)

> From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
> Date: Thu, 26 May 2016 19:11:37 -0700
> Cc: Emacs Development <Emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> 
> Michael Heerdegen wrote:
> > AFAIU the patch indeed doesn't distinguish "arglist ()"
> > and "no arglist specified" - it treats both as "arglist ()".
> 
> Clearly I missed the distinction between the two. Sorry about that. I installed 
> the attached patch to master, which should fix things. Thanks for reporting it.

Thanks.  Could we please have a more prominent documentation of this
feature?  The doc string doesn't actually explain the special
significance of omitting the arglist, except by an indirect hint, and
the ELisp manual says even less.  We shouldn't leave these subtleties
unsaid.

TIA



  reply	other threads:[~2016-05-27  6:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20160526025822.15529.80475@vcs.savannah.gnu.org>
     [not found] ` <20160526025822.4D91A220153@vcs.savannah.gnu.org>
2016-05-26 15:52   ` master e971ce6: Make autoloads populate a new definition-prefixes table Glenn Morris
2016-05-26 16:44     ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-05-26 17:02       ` Glenn Morris
2016-05-26 17:58         ` Stefan Monnier
2016-05-26 18:34           ` Stefan Monnier
2016-05-26 18:11       ` Stefan Monnier
2016-05-26 19:52         ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-05-26 20:47           ` Stefan Monnier
2016-05-26 21:22             ` Michael Heerdegen
2016-05-27  2:11               ` Paul Eggert
2016-05-27  6:39                 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2016-05-27 15:03                   ` Michael Heerdegen
2016-05-27 16:48                   ` Paul Eggert
2016-05-27 18:46                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-05-27 20:48                     ` Michael Heerdegen
2016-05-27 15:14                 ` Michael Heerdegen

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