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From: Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: distance from Easter Island to Chile
Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2014 00:44:42 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <barmar-3962B7.00444220042014@news.eternal-september.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87mwfguasr.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se

In article <87mwfguasr.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se>,
 Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se> wrote:

> (defun distance (l1-r f1-r l2-r f2-r)
>   (interactive)

If you declare this interactive, you need to provide a specification 
string for the arguments, so that it can prompt for them.

And your argument names are not very helpful. They're apparently 
latitude and longitude, so what does "f" mean? And what is the "-r" 
suffix on all of them?

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
*** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***


  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-04-20  4:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-20  0:03 distance from Easter Island to Chile Emanuel Berg
2014-04-20  3:55 ` Frank Stutzman
2014-04-20 15:14   ` Emanuel Berg
2014-04-20 22:39     ` giacomo.boffi
     [not found]     ` <mailman.19957.1398033917.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-04-21  1:40       ` Emanuel Berg
2014-04-21  1:50         ` Emanuel Berg
2014-04-21  9:45         ` giacomo.boffi
     [not found]         ` <mailman.19981.1398073560.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-04-21 10:35           ` Emanuel Berg
2014-04-21 10:50             ` Emanuel Berg
2014-04-23  2:49               ` Emanuel Berg
2014-04-21  2:16       ` Emanuel Berg
2014-04-20  4:44 ` Barry Margolin [this message]
2014-04-20 15:06   ` Emanuel Berg
2014-04-20  6:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found] ` <mailman.19905.1397975330.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-04-20  7:01   ` Barry Margolin
2014-04-20  7:48     ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-04-20 10:26       ` Thorsten Jolitz
2014-04-20 11:03         ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-04-20 15:22     ` Emanuel Berg
2014-04-21  6:04       ` Emanuel Berg

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