GNU bug report logs - #23486
25.0.93; Modules: features missing from make_function

Previous Next

Full log

View this message in rfc822 format

From: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>
To: npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net
Cc: 23486 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#23486: 25.0.93; Modules: features missing from make_function
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2017 20:40:00 +0000

[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]

<npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net> schrieb am So., 26. März 2017 um 22:21 Uhr:

> Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
> >
> >>  I think adding "(fn ARG1 ARG2...)" to the docstring would solve
> (1)-(3).
> >
> > That doesn't work, because Emacs ignores this syntax when the
> > arguments are provided explicitly, and since a module function is just
> > a (lambda (&rest args) ...) under the hood, the arglist is always just
> > (&rest args).
>
> I don't know what you mean here.
>
>     (defun foo (&rest args)
>       "Do foo.
>
>     \(fn ARG1 ARG2)")
>
> <f1> f foo RET gives
>
>     foo is a Lisp function.
>
>     (foo ARG1 ARG2)
>
>     Do foo.
>

OK, that one works, but others don't (e.g. help-function-arglist). The
argument names should be transparent, without having to use such tricks.

[Message part 2 (text/html, inline)]

Previous Next

GNU bug tracking system
Copyright (C) 1999 Darren O. Benham, 1997,2003 nCipher Corporation Ltd, 1994-97 Ian Jackson.