From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Gemini Lasswell <gazally@runbox.com>
Cc: 28747@debbugs.gnu.org, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: bug#28747: 26.0.60; Usage of "&rest body" in Edebug specs
Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2022 16:56:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o83u8rjg.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sgnto1bf.fsf@gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Wed, 16 Oct 2019 04:45:40 +0200")
Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
>> Here's a little example of what an Edebug spec would look like with
>> &repeat in place of &rest:
>>
>> (defmacro msgmac (&rest args)
>> (declare (debug ("start" [&repeat "middle"] "end")))
>> `(message "%s" ',args))
>>
>> (defun use-msgmac ()
>> (msgmac start end)
>> (msgmac start middle end)
>> (msgmac start middle middle end))
>>
>> Does anyone have thoughts on the idea of adding &repeat as a synonym
>> for &rest in Edebug specs, with the goal of moving &rest towards
>> obsolescence eventually?
>
> I agree that this would be a lot clearer and probably less error-prone
> than &rest.
>
> Does anybody have an opinion here?
Stefan added to the CCs; perhaps he has an opinion.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-01-29 15:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-10-08 15:02 bug#28747: 26.0.60; Usage of "&rest body" in Edebug specs Gemini Lasswell
2017-10-13 0:54 ` Noam Postavsky
2019-10-16 2:45 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-10-18 3:12 ` Richard Stallman
2019-10-18 3:35 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-10-18 14:14 ` Richard Stallman
2019-10-19 8:20 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-10-19 14:02 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-01-29 15:56 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2022-02-01 5:03 ` Richard Stallman
2022-01-29 23:25 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-01-31 2:21 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-01-31 2:30 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-01-31 2:35 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-01-31 2:44 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-01-31 3:00 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-01 8:49 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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