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[PATCH] eval.c: New functions `defvar-f` and `defconst-f`

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Message #35 received at 55156 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 55156 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#55156: [PATCH] eval.c: New functions `defvar-f` and
 `defconst-f`
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2022 16:45:47 +0300

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: 55156 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2022 09:26:50 -0400
> 
> >> +DEFUN ("defvar-f", Fdefvar_f, Sdefvar_f, 2, 3, 0,
> >> +       doc: /* Like `defvar' but as a function.  */)
> >
> > Please improve the doc string here.
> >
> >> +DEFUN ("defconst-f", Fdefconst_f, Sdefconst_f, 2, 3, 0,
> >> +       doc: /* Like `defconst' but as a function.  */)
> >
> > Likewise.
> 
> How 'bout I use a double dash to make it more clear they're internal?

It should still say something about its intended usage, with Emacs
developers in mind, IMO.  Because I doubt that we are going to
document them in the ELisp reference manual, and nor do I think we
should.  So this place here is the only place where we can say
something about these functions, so that future hackers of the byte
compiler could maintain this.

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