From: Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.com>
To: tomas@tuxteam.de
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Defun Self Documentation
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2020 16:55:54 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <trinity-1a8c6a15-9a96-4e4c-a805-bc7883381608-1604591754030@3c-app-mailcom-bs14> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201105154537.GA24492@tuxteam.de>
Don't people find it tough to immediately figure out which bracket closes
what? But if readers will thank me, I would certainly comply. I come from
the C-Language as is evident.
> Sent: Thursday, November 05, 2020 at 4:45 PM
> From: tomas@tuxteam.de
> To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Defun Self Documentation
>
> On Thu, Nov 05, 2020 at 04:16:09PM +0100, Christopher Dimech wrote:
> >
> > When using defun, can one include a Self Documenting string or is
> > Self-Documentation only applicable for interactive functions?
> >
> > (defun Gdn ()
> > "Description"
> > Body ...
> > )
>
> No need to be interactive.
>
> Minor nit: convention in Lisp is
>
> (defun Gdn ()
> "Description"
> Body ... )
>
> i.e. closing parens don't get a line of their own. Readers will
> thank you :)
>
> Cheers
> - t
>
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2020-11-05 15:16 Defun Self Documentation Christopher Dimech
2020-11-05 15:45 ` tomas
2020-11-05 15:55 ` Christopher Dimech [this message]
2020-11-05 16:00 ` tomas
2020-11-05 16:10 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-05 18:08 ` Jean Louis
2020-11-05 19:34 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-05 16:15 ` Drew Adams
2020-11-05 16:27 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-05 16:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-11-05 16:51 ` Arthur Miller
2020-11-05 16:59 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-05 17:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-11-05 17:29 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-05 17:50 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-05 19:35 ` Michael Heerdegen
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2020-11-06 11:10 ` Defun Self Documentation (let us do it different) Jean Louis
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2020-11-06 19:07 ` Christopher Dimech
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