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)
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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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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
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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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