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24.5.3: add-hook - wrong arguments error

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: bruce.connor.am <at> gmail.com
Cc: andreas.roehler <at> easy-emacs.de, 20600 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#20600: 24.5.3: add-hook - wrong arguments error
Date: Mon, 18 May 2015 17:25:24 +0300

> Date: Mon, 18 May 2015 12:54:25 +0100
> From: Artur Malabarba <bruce.connor.am <at> gmail.com>
> Cc: 20600 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> Still, it sounds like it might be useful for run-hooks to properly handle
> functions whose arity is less than the expected arity.
> Does anyone foresee any issues with that?

To tell you the truth, I don't see the problem.  Is the problem the
need to specify a couple of arguments that will be left unused when
the function is called?  If so, we do it all over the place; we even
have a special convention for that.

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