Subject: Re: bug#28747: 26.0.60; Usage of "&rest body" in Edebug specs

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2019 05:35:14 +0200

Richard Stallman <[email-masked]> writes:

>   > > The symbol &rest in an Edebug spec has a different meaning than it has
>   > > in an argument list.
>
> That seems like a confusing wrinkle.  Could we possibly change Emacs
> to smooth it out?

Yes, the suggestion was to make &repeat a synonym for &rest and then
replace all the usages.

I'm not sure this is worth the code churn, though -- as was pointed out,
virtually all the debug specs gets this right anyway.  Does anybody have
an opinion?

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