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From: "Mattias Engdegård" <mattias.engdegard@gmail.com>
To: Andrea Corallo <acorallo@gnu.org>
Cc: Andrea Corallo <akrl@sdf.org>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
	emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Inferred function types in the *Help* buffer
Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2023 19:53:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <A4098C27-6703-4BE8-B85A-C8B4A5C9D626@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <yp18rd3gqv3.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>

1 juni 2023 kl. 17.10 skrev Andrea Corallo <acorallo@gnu.org>:

> It's just a very concise and effective way to express the input/output
> value/types of the function.  I, for one, find it very useful.

If we want to be as nice as possible to the user then perhaps we should massage the output a bit.
For instance, the `function` part is useless, and using the names of the arguments would be very helpful.

In other words, instead of describing `make-string` as

 (function (integer fixnum &optional t) string)

we could say something like

 LENGTH:integer INIT:fixnum MULTIBYTE -> string

(Not sure how practical it is, I'm just making this up.)

How concise are inferred types, for that matter? I can imagine them becoming pretty voluminous.

By the way, `expt` should have the return type `number`, not `float`. This is just something I noticed in passing; I haven't done any systematic review.




  reply	other threads:[~2023-06-01 17:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-05-23 16:44 Inferred function types in the *Help* buffer Andrea Corallo
2023-05-24 10:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-24 12:19   ` Andrea Corallo
2023-05-30 16:46     ` Andrea Corallo
2023-05-30 18:14       ` Mattias Engdegård
2023-05-30 18:48         ` Andrea Corallo
2023-05-31 12:19           ` Andrea Corallo
2023-05-31 14:08             ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-01 11:28             ` Mattias Engdegård
2023-06-01 11:35               ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-01 11:36                 ` Mattias Engdegård
2023-06-01 11:54                   ` Andrea Corallo
2023-06-01 11:50               ` Andrea Corallo
2023-06-01 13:06                 ` Mattias Engdegård
2023-06-01 13:34                   ` Andrea Corallo
2023-06-01 14:50                     ` Mattias Engdegård
2023-06-01 15:10                       ` Andrea Corallo
2023-06-01 17:53                         ` Mattias Engdegård [this message]
2023-06-01 19:13                           ` Andrea Corallo
2023-06-01 14:09                   ` Andrea Corallo
2023-05-31 13:46       ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-01  8:42         ` Andrea Corallo
2023-06-01  8:53           ` Eli Zaretskii
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2023-05-23 16:47 Payas Relekar
2023-05-23 18:51 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-05-24 12:20 ` Andrea Corallo

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