From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Opaque objects and Emacs documentation Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2020 22:44:24 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20200712184908.13140.5739@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <20200712184909.BBC61209B1@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <7bf4d6ef-c0ec-43dc-ad5d-f6e81422ad90@yandex.ru> <83zh84m5ws.fsf@gnu.org> <3dd1c224-69b2-40af-5b2e-43a310253632@yandex.ru> <83tuybmtxs.fsf@gnu.org> <859f594b-1343-6d26-e1ac-7157c44eb56c@yandex.ru> <83a6zyk4tt.fsf@gnu.org> <6edffb7d-7708-534f-93ad-bf9180f5e0ed@yandex.ru> <835zamjsvk.fsf@gnu.org> <831rlajock.fsf@gnu.org> <1fcdc463-b3ab-2d32-31d7-904783ae0d81@yandex.ru> <83y2nii6sk.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="21865"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: eliz@gnu.org, npostavs@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dmitry Gutov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 20 04:45:12 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jxLnj-0005aV-D0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 20 Jul 2020 04:45:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44568 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jxLni-00056O-F3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 19 Jul 2020 22:45:10 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:41926) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jxLn2-0004K9-Kn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Jul 2020 22:44:32 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:55017) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jxLn2-0001Zb-1Q; Sun, 19 Jul 2020 22:44:28 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jxLmy-0007CT-PR; Sun, 19 Jul 2020 22:44:25 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Dmitry Gutov on Mon, 20 Jul 2020 01:02:10 +0300) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:253118 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > Consider the docstring of said constructor function. What should it say > its return value is? One natural possibility: Return an empty project object. You need to store values in it with ... Another: Return a project object with name MAME and containing files FILES. I am guessing here. I don't know what these projects do. I don't know what data a project object should have. -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)