From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu
Subject: Re: Docstring for define-key
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 11:37:19 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E18nLbT-0002Ml-00@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200302222040.h1MKe7c14775@rum.cs.yale.edu> (monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu)
> The first line should mention all the important arguments of the
> function, and should mention them in the order that they are written
> in a function call.
Why "in the order" ?
To ease the work of the programmer reading it.
To have to reorder the args for the code is extra work
and a source of mistakes.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-02-24 16:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-02-19 16:31 Docstring for define-key Kai Großjohann
2003-02-19 22:18 ` Kevin Rodgers
2003-02-20 18:21 ` Richard Stallman
2003-02-20 19:58 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-02-21 7:39 ` Juanma Barranquero
2003-02-21 10:53 ` Kim F. Storm
2003-02-21 10:34 ` Juanma Barranquero
2003-02-22 17:53 ` Richard Stallman
2003-02-22 20:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-02-24 16:37 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2003-02-21 14:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-02-21 16:38 ` Kai Großjohann
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=E18nLbT-0002Ml-00@fencepost.gnu.org \
--to=rms@gnu.org \
--cc=monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this external index
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.