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26.0.60; Usage of "&rest body" in Edebug specs

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Message #23 received at 28747 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>
Cc: gazally <at> runbox.com, 28747 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#28747: 26.0.60; Usage of "&rest body" in Edebug specs
Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2019 10:20:28 +0200

Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org> writes:

>   > 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?
>
> The benefit would be to simplify the specs for Edebug specs.
>
> The cost would be to fix the existing ones -- if they would need changing.
> Would any existing correct ones need changing?

They wouldn't need changing, but it'd be confusing (for people reading
the code) to have some specs with &repeat and some with &rest, so I
think we should change them all if we decide to introduce the &repeat
alias.

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