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From: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: michael_heerdegen@web.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Arbitrary function: find the number(s) of expected arguments
Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2016 16:34:55 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAArVCkQzofeY3=g9K7gHUyG=6vrBaTwXOQqpcF7ato_85doGaw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <834mc28m3j.fsf@gnu.org>

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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> schrieb am Sa., 19. März 2016 um 17:33 Uhr:

> > From: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com>
> > Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2016 16:30:30 +0000
> > Cc: michael_heerdegen@web.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> >
> >  No, that's not g's arity:
> >
> >  (g 10 202 30) => error -> "Wrong number of arguments"
> >
> > This cannot be detected without evaluating the function.
>
> Are we discussing the usefulness of the function, or are we discussing
> how best to implement it?
>

We are discussing for which cases it can be implemented. It can be
implemented and would be useful for a wide range of functions, such as
those defined with defun. It cannot be implemented for functions like g;
that's just a limitation we have to live with.

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  reply	other threads:[~2016-03-19 16:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-15 18:48 Arbitrary function: find the number(s) of expected arguments Paul Pogonyshev
2016-03-15 22:45 ` Davis Herring
2016-03-16  7:41   ` Paul Pogonyshev
2016-03-19 12:26     ` Paul Pogonyshev
2016-03-19 13:10       ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-19 13:42         ` Paul Pogonyshev
2016-03-19 13:54         ` Michael Heerdegen
2016-03-19 14:08           ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-19 15:20             ` Michael Heerdegen
2016-03-19 15:43               ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-19 15:57                 ` Michael Heerdegen
2016-03-19 16:24                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-19 17:43                     ` Michael Heerdegen
2016-03-19 17:50                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-19 17:59                         ` Michael Heerdegen
2016-03-19 18:14                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-19 16:14                 ` Philipp Stephani
2016-03-19 16:27                   ` Michael Heerdegen
2016-03-19 16:27                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-19 16:30                     ` Philipp Stephani
2016-03-19 16:32                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-19 16:34                         ` Philipp Stephani [this message]
2016-03-19 16:46                           ` Philipp Stephani
2016-03-19 16:47                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-19 17:16                             ` Philipp Stephani
2016-03-19 17:48                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-19 17:49                                 ` Philipp Stephani
2016-03-19 18:11                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-19 18:35                                     ` Michael Heerdegen
2016-04-18 23:02                 ` Davis Herring
2016-03-19 19:52         ` Stefan Monnier
2016-03-19 20:33           ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-19 22:43             ` Stefan Monnier
2016-03-26 15:55           ` Elias Mårtenson
2016-03-26 17:20             ` Stefan Monnier
2016-03-19 14:26       ` Philipp Stephani
2016-03-19 16:51         ` Paul Pogonyshev
2016-03-19 18:09           ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-19 19:32             ` Michael Heerdegen
2016-03-19 19:39               ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-19 20:59                 ` Michael Heerdegen
2016-03-21 18:36             ` Paul Pogonyshev
2016-03-25  8:44               ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-25 16:16                 ` Paul Pogonyshev
2016-03-25 16:35                   ` Drew Adams
2016-03-25 17:16                     ` Paul Pogonyshev
2016-03-25 18:19                       ` Drew Adams
2016-03-25 18:28                         ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-03-25 18:51                           ` Use plain-text for mail [was: Arbitrary function: find the number(s) of expected arguments] Drew Adams
2016-03-25 18:57                             ` Use plain-text for mail [ Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2016-03-25 19:49                               ` Andreas Schwab
2016-03-26  1:12                             ` Use plain-text for mail [was: Arbitrary function: find the number(s) of expected arguments] Yuri Khan
2016-03-25 17:39                     ` Arbitrary function: find the number(s) of expected arguments Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-25 18:31                       ` Drew Adams
2016-03-26  8:27                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-26 11:42                     ` Paul Pogonyshev
2016-04-02  9:48                       ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]           ` <<83y49e731p.fsf@gnu.org>
2016-03-19 19:21             ` Drew Adams
2016-04-18 18:43               ` Davis Herring
2016-03-16  3:47 ` Stefan Monnier

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