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From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>,
	Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
	21466@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#21466: [PATCH] Avoid defining (temporarily) vars and functions
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2021 11:01:03 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <esv95113dc.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fsw5cgu6.fsf@gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Fri, 23 Jul 2021 15:14:41 +0200")

Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:

>> So indeed, a real FILE argument would be preferable, but passing nil
>> works fine (it will simply prevent `check-declare` from making sure
>> that file indeed defines that function,
>
> I've now amended the doc string to `declare-function on the trunk to
> mention this.

Whilst that may happen to work as a kludge, it's against the intent of
declare-function, so personally I would prefer that it either remained
undocumented, or you do it properly and make FILE an optional argument
(I haven't checked if check-declare would need changes for that).

Ref: https://lists.gnu.org/r/emacs-devel/2007-11/msg01409.html





  reply	other threads:[~2021-07-23 15:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-12  3:36 bug#21466: [PATCH] Avoid defining (temporarily) vars and functions Stefan Monnier
2015-10-29 13:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-11-06  1:29 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-05-10 11:45 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-05-11 20:34   ` Alan Mackenzie
     [not found]   ` <YJrqVlJR4iMvf2s1@ACM>
2021-05-11 22:03     ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-07-23 13:14       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-07-23 15:01         ` Glenn Morris [this message]
2021-07-24 10:26           ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-03-23 20:13     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-03-25 21:09       ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-03-26 14:45       ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-03-26 16:47         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-03-26 19:51           ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-03-29 12:26             ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-03-29 21:02             ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors

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