Subject: Re: bug#65288: 30.0.50; Make Type: annotation optional in *Help* buffers

From: Helmut Eller <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2023 16:25:06 +0200

On Mon, Aug 14 2023, Philip Kaludercic wrote:

> That being said, I agree that in cases like `char-after' the information
> of a very specific type like that one is limited.  I don't know if there
> is a sensible heuristic to reformat the type into something like
>
>   (function (&optional position) (or position null))
>
> using some kind of type aliasing, but it might be better to not
> highlight the information so prominently?

It would make sense to rewrite
  (integer -2305843009213693952 2305843009213693951)
as fixnum.

Helmut