From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: forward-paragraph return value Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 17:27:23 +0900 Message-ID: <87y6bw5sb8.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <4C72BD0A.8090104@online.de> <4C735C02.70804@online.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1282638665 30311 80.91.229.12 (24 Aug 2010 08:31:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 08:31:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Andreas Schwab , Emacs developers To: Andreas =?iso-8859-1?Q?R=F6hler?= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 24 10:31:03 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OnouL-0007JQ-3F for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Aug 2010 10:31:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51765 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OnouK-0000zk-JY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Aug 2010 04:31:00 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=40606 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OnouE-0000zS-LD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Aug 2010 04:30:55 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OnouD-0001cq-0m for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Aug 2010 04:30:54 -0400 Original-Received: from imss12.cc.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.254.161]:34083) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OnouC-0001cW-Nq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Aug 2010 04:30:52 -0400 Original-Received: from imss12.cc.tsukuba.ac.jp (imss12.cc.tsukuba.ac.jp [127.0.0.1]) by postfix.imss70 (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4BFAF4003; Tue, 24 Aug 2010 17:30:50 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from mgmt1.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (unknown [130.158.97.223]) by imss12.cc.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2E5AF4002; Tue, 24 Aug 2010 17:30:50 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by mgmt1.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE0723FA023E; Tue, 24 Aug 2010 17:30:50 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 14A921A47B8; Tue, 24 Aug 2010 17:27:24 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: <4C735C02.70804@online.de> X-Mailer: VM undefined under 21.5 (beta29) "garbanzo" ed3b274cc037 XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-unknown-linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:129118 Archived-At: Andreas R=F6hler writes: > Then people may write functions taking already the return value. Sure. But will they? Show us examples of existing functions (preferably already in Emacs) that would benefit from this change. An easy example would be functions which look like ;; some code here (forward-paragraph count) (foo (point) other args) ;; more code But it's not clear to me that ;; some code here (foo (forward-paragraph count) other args) ;; more code is going to be more readable without seeing examples. Since point has a byte code, it's not particularly costly to use point.