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From: John Wiegley <jwiegley@gmail.com>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com>,
	Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Small docstring improvements
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2016 17:24:42 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2d1l4p9rp.fsf@newartisans.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b9ddfe87-83c1-44bc-ac67-cb3094b3866f@default> (Drew Adams's message of "Fri, 19 Aug 2016 15:04:07 -0700 (PDT)")

>>>>> Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:

> FWIW, I disagree.  I have no problem with a parameter having
> different uses and different types (buffer position, string, nil).

We agree to disagree. Semantic overloading like this I consider anathema.

-- 
John Wiegley                  GPG fingerprint = 4710 CF98 AF9B 327B B80F
http://newartisans.com                          60E1 46C4 BD1A 7AC1 4BA2



  reply	other threads:[~2016-08-20  0:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-19 19:26 Small docstring improvements Philipp Stephani
2016-08-19 19:34 ` John Wiegley
2016-08-19 20:34   ` Philipp Stephani
2016-08-19 21:12     ` John Wiegley
2016-08-19 22:04       ` Drew Adams
2016-08-20  0:24         ` John Wiegley [this message]
2016-08-20  7:10   ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-08-20 23:17     ` John Wiegley
2016-08-19 21:59 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-08-20  7:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-08-20 13:52   ` Philipp Stephani
2016-08-20 15:34     ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-08-20 15:59       ` Philipp Stephani
2016-08-20 16:11         ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-08-20 18:00           ` Philipp Stephani

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