From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: functions that take a last argument with a possible nil value ... Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2021 11:51:24 +0100 Message-ID: <87czmt6atv.fsf@zoho.eu> Reply-To: Emanuel Berg Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="31290"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:1MJkvpKLcPiQiSigzPH+xRmL+DE= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 21 11:52:16 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mokSF-0007w9-Ah for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 21 Nov 2021 11:52:15 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50616 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mokSE-0005Ap-9Y for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 21 Nov 2021 05:52:14 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:35300) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mokRf-0005A3-Vj for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Nov 2021 05:51:40 -0500 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:37714) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mokRe-0003zn-BF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Nov 2021 05:51:39 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mokRa-0006zo-QY for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Nov 2021 11:51:34 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.248, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:134661 Archived-At: Functions that take a last argument with a possible nil value, e.g., `declare-function', since it can be called like this (declare-function ny-kill nil) cannot they just as well be rewritten with the (in this case) second argument optional since nil will be the default value for that anyway? I.e., (declare-function ny-kill) Same? -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal