Subject: Re: bug#24353: 25.1.1: looking-back wrong info

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2016 13:04:11 +0300

> Cc: [email-masked]
> From: Andreas Röhler <[email-masked]>
> Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2016 11:57:53 +0200
> 
> > Are you saying that using advertised-calling-convention is wrong
> > everywhere,
> 
> In the way it's implemented, seems a bad idea everywhere.
> It cheats the user delivering wrong resp. incomplete signatures.
> 
> If certain usages are discouraged, that might be told in docstring, by 
> re-writing the function etc.

But advertised-calling-convention affects the doc string, and nothing
else.  Both the source and the Lisp interpreter ignore it.  So it
seems its effect is exactly what you are asking for: to tell in the
doc string that we would like it to be used this way.