Subject: Re: bug#24706: 26.0.50; Minor mode functions should do strict argument type checking

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2016 21:01:14 +0300

> From: Noam Postavsky <[email-masked]>
> Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2016 12:31:51 -0400
> Cc: [email-masked], Philipp Stephani <[email-masked]>
> 
> > No, it does not suggest that.  But to be clearer, it should
> > probably explicitly address the non-nil and non-`toggle' case,
> > like so:
> >
> >   If called from Lisp, enable the mode if ARG is omitted or
> >   nil, toggle it if ARG is ‘toggle’, and disable it if ARG is
> >   any other non-nil value.
> 
> If the Lisp description is meant to be exhaustive by itself, we should
> cover the numeric case too:
> 
>    If called from Lisp, enable the mode if ARG is omitted, nil, or a
>    positive number; toggle it if ARG is `toggle'; and disable it
>    otherwise.

There's a magic word 'also", which should allow us to avoid
repetitions.