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25.1.1: looking-back wrong info

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Message #11 received at 24353 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler <at> easy-emacs.de>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 24353 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#24353: 25.1.1: looking-back wrong info
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2016 11:57:53 +0200

On 02.09.2016 10:58, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler <at> easy-emacs.de>
>> Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2016 10:48:39 +0200
>>
>> Wrong advertised-calling-convention
>>
>>   From subr.el: looking-back declares optional argument LIMIT mandatory.
>>
>> Such calling-convention deserves a place in doku, but should not send
>> wrong info out of didactics
> 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.

>   or just in this one case?  If the latter, what is special
> about this function?
>
> Thanks.

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