Re: 29.0.60; keymap-local-set and keymap-global-set became less strict

[Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>]

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  > The advertised API wouldn't change.  We don't expect anyone to use the
  > additional argument in non-interactive invocation.  We can use
  > advertised-calling-convention declaration to hide that argument from
  > documented interfaces.

Why hide it?   It's better to document it.
Occasionally, passing a nontrivial value for that argument is useful.

  > I still believe it is better to not leak implementation details as an
  > optional argument in this 

I would not call this 'leaking', because that assumes there something
we need to "contain".  Having an argument for interactive call,
described in the function's doc string is not a problem, just a slight
complexity.

By coontrsst, `called-interactively-p' has real problems.
It was called "fragile" for good reasons.


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