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

From: Dmitry Gutov <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2016 03:03:04 +0300

On 03.09.2016 02:59, Drew Adams wrote:
>>> How does this change help Emacs users?
>>
>> It forces Emacs Lisp programmers to include the last argument,
>
> It certainly does not.  It does NOT force anything.
> It only misleads.  It doesn't even explicitly recommend.

Well, at least the byte compiler sees the advertised calling convention, 
and warns when it's violated. So the encouragement is there.