GNU bug report logs - #65030
30.0.50; Check keyword args of make-process

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Message #8 received at 65030 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Helmut Eller <eller.helmut <at> gmail.com>,
 Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org>
 Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>, Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 65030 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#65030: 30.0.50; Check keyword args of make-process
Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2023 12:21:40 +0300

> From: Helmut Eller <eller.helmut <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2023 08:47:44 +0200
> 
> The functions make-process and make-network-process have many keyword
> arguments and it's somewhat easy to misspell some of them.  E.g. using
> :coding-system instead of :coding.  These functions don't detect such
> mistakes at runtime.  What would people think about adding some checks
> as a compiler macro as with the patch below?
> 
> I didn't know where to put this, so I just left it in bytecomp.el.
> 
> Perhaps the advertised-calling-convention declaration could do this, but
> since keyword arguments seem to be generally discouraged, a special case
> for make-process and make-network-process maybe simpler.

Mattias, Robert and Stefan: any comments on this?

Thanks.

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