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bug#12884: 24.2.50; defun*: argument lists in documentation look terribl
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Michael Heerdegen |
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bug#12884: 24.2.50; defun*: argument lists in documentation look terrible |
Date: |
Wed, 14 Nov 2012 22:51:09 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2.50 (gnu/linux) |
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
> > | (my-toggle-item #:MODE-OR-VAR &key ((:selected #:ENABLED-SPEC) (\`
> > | (am-bound-and-true-p (quote (\, mode-or-var))))) ((:help
> > | #:HELP-STRING) (am-make-symbol-docstring mode-or-var)))
>
> Let me just say that I will resist the urge to tell you what I think
> about this style of argument list ;-)
Please don't resist. What's wrong with it?
> > This looks terrible with all this #: and quote \, stuff.
>
> Binding print-quoted makes sense to improve the quote/backquote syntax.
> But I don't understand why we have those #: in there. I understand it's
> there to say the symbols are not interned, but I don't understand why
> they're not interned.
See `cl--make-usage-args'. It upcases the names of the arguments and
makes them a symbol again. The one who wrote that wanted that no new
symbols are interned, and so used `make-symbol'. Dunno if there's a
reason to do so.
- Michael.