From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "John Wiegley" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: coccinelle patch suggestion Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 19:06:07 -0500 Organization: New Artisans LLC Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1340842057 23552 80.91.229.3 (28 Jun 2012 00:07:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 00:07:37 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 28 02:07:37 2012 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 1Sk2Gm-0008EM-W2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 28 Jun 2012 02:07:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57164 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sk2Gm-0005eX-Sv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Jun 2012 20:07:36 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:49955) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sk2Gj-0005eR-I8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Jun 2012 20:07:34 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sk2Gh-0008My-Sd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Jun 2012 20:07:33 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-gh0-f169.google.com ([209.85.160.169]:59921) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sk2Gh-0008MS-ME for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Jun 2012 20:07:31 -0400 Original-Received: by ghrr18 with SMTP id r18so1703782ghr.0 for ; Wed, 27 Jun 2012 17:07:30 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=sender:from:to:subject:organization:references:mail-followup-to :date:in-reply-to:message-id:user-agent:mime-version:content-type; bh=Kdx2U6fZA0hnmmFFXvjyczcKcDGRB6l7e/VfAcEVeIs=; b=NUIy0huTw1gi+n2RCNHGi3x9dOhWPClGkHgmazq/Rr42OEX4FoC9ZkvVwmDReuBxCA SlelPm4nSfRNSrcCxVCbAyoA94/VNev5fWolWrniVWHDNPvkqU6yuvyMHXylB8FR4gfn VGmAxTepJF1KiT+IQgP9H4dH9cjqrnIKwFCtt8/g14uQiy6aaO6Q7Q29fVuIVib788qR KnLYN/1WQczidhxF6ovF+kPGa8sKNHqT+b/P4B9b/Kr7cJJdPxdIUMPa5MKTbZOVkgUM UE6gVaU4Gs/CszLvBYNV+Cir8hmpSa4AQFJ+ubql+x9xjSJ/KMttUmaDqP8LcfGKNfY3 0f+w== Original-Received: by 10.236.74.74 with SMTP id w50mr25697237yhd.34.1340842050102; Wed, 27 Jun 2012 17:07:30 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from vulcan.local (c-98-215-105-167.hsd1.il.comcast.net. [98.215.105.167]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id c13sm65396312anm.13.2012.06.27.17.07.29 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 27 Jun 2012 17:07:29 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by vulcan.local (Postfix, from userid 501) id 7CD0BF1B0199; Wed, 27 Jun 2012 19:06:07 -0500 (CDT) Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Andreas Schwab's message of "Wed, 27 Jun 2012 23:03:01 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.130006 (Ma Gnus v0.6) Emacs/24.1 (darwin) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 209.85.160.169 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:151246 Archived-At: >>>>> Andreas Schwab writes: >> And EXFUN just adds an unneeded level of obfuscation that doesn't help code >> readability. > It tells you that it's a Lisp function with N arguments. That's easier to > read than when you need to count them. Also, it forms a meaningful parallel with DEFUN. When I read an EXFUN declaration, I know that there's a matching DEFUN. This is not true of everything other function that has a prototype. John