Re: Weird &key arglists in ibuf-macs.el

[Juanma Barranquero]

On Mon, 10 May 2004 16:11:08 +0100, Lawrence Mitchell <address@hidden> wrote:

> It is legal, see section 3.4.4.1 of the hyperspec <URL:
> http://www.lispworks.com/reference/HyperSpec/Body/03_dda.htm>.

Ah, very interesting, thanks.

> The thing to do here is to explicitly write the arglist in the
> end of the docstring.

Yes, I've seen (and sometimes, added) a few of these, mostly in cases
where

  (function ARG1 &optional ARG2)

is better explained as

  (function ARG1 ARG2 [OTHERARGS]...)

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