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`buffer-match-p` should not use `func-arity`

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Joseph Turner <joseph <at> breatheoutbreathe.in>
Cc: monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca, 65797 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#65797: 29.0.92; func-arity should not return (0 . many) with apply-partially
Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2023 09:46:15 +0300

> Cc: 65797 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2023 21:40:28 -0700
> From:  Joseph Turner via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
>  the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
> 
> Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
> 
> > - Replace `&optional arg` with `&rest args` and pass those args via
> >   `apply`, so the number of args passed doesn't depend on the function
> >   but on the caller.
> 
> I like this idea. See patch.
> 
> > - Always pass both args to the function (i.e. as documented in the
> >   docstring).
> 
> This isn't backwards compatible, is it?

Neither is what you propose, AFAIU.  We are in effect changing a
public API in incompatible ways.

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