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bug#28747: 26.0.60; Usage of "&rest body" in Edebug specs
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Lars Ingebrigtsen |
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bug#28747: 26.0.60; Usage of "&rest body" in Edebug specs |
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Fri, 18 Oct 2019 05:35:14 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> > > The symbol &rest in an Edebug spec has a different meaning than it has
> > > in an argument list.
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> That seems like a confusing wrinkle. Could we possibly change Emacs
> to smooth it out?
Yes, the suggestion was to make &repeat a synonym for &rest and then
replace all the usages.
I'm not sure this is worth the code churn, though -- as was pointed out,
virtually all the debug specs gets this right anyway. Does anybody have
an opinion?
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