GNU bug report logs - #30005
27.0.50; call-interactively doesn't work correctly if the interactive specification has an embedded null byte

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Message #17 received at 30005 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 30005 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com
Subject: Re: bug#30005: 27.0.50;
 call-interactively doesn't work correctly if the interactive
 specification has an embedded null byte
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2018 13:06:35 -0500

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  > That's not my understanding of the preferred style.  My understanding,
  > and what I do in practice, is that variables used only in a small
  > portion of a function should be declared before the use, so that all
  > the references to those variables are localized to the fragment where
  > they are used.  By contrast, in this case these variables are used all
  > over the function, so it makes much less sense to delay their
  > declaration.

I agree.

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