From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Arbitrary function: find the number(s) of expected arguments Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2016 18:43:56 -0400 Message-ID: References: <56E8906C.5050405@lanl.gov> <83egb68vfy.fsf@gnu.org> <83lh5e6wd1.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1458427479 24653 80.91.229.3 (19 Mar 2016 22:44:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2016 22:44:39 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 19 23:44:24 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ahPbb-0003OO-BU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Mar 2016 23:44:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50763 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ahPba-0001Mu-Jd for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Mar 2016 18:44:22 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49447) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ahPbN-0001Mi-UP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Mar 2016 18:44:10 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ahPbI-000326-Um for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Mar 2016 18:44:09 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:34356) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ahPbI-00031x-Nr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Mar 2016 18:44:04 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ahPbG-0003Br-8B for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Mar 2016 23:44:02 +0100 Original-Received: from 107-179-144-20.cpe.teksavvy.com ([107.179.144.20]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 19 Mar 2016 23:44:02 +0100 Original-Received: from monnier by 107-179-144-20.cpe.teksavvy.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 19 Mar 2016 23:44:02 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 11 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 107-179-144-20.cpe.teksavvy.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ojLNAE2rNL+GgF0S/phkOB1sw+c= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:201906 Archived-At: > I don't see why would that be such a bad idea that it justifies > rejecting a patch. I don't think we should accept addition of functions which are never needed because every code that could use them would be better served by something else. I'm fully aware that it's a losing battle, tho. Stefan