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bug#6335: 24.0.50; doc for define-minor-mode: specify ARG
From: |
Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
bug#6335: 24.0.50; doc for define-minor-mode: specify ARG |
Date: |
Wed, 02 Jun 2010 21:54:43 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
> (cond ((integer arg) (if (> arg 0) do-foo do-fa))
> ((consp arg) ...)
> (arg ...)
> (t ...))
I do not want to support this.
> The doc should also state clearly that the _raw prefix argument_ is used
> as ARG interactively.
It's not the case.
> Programmers can then take advantage of that fact also. Knowing this,
> they can easily define a minor-mode command that lets users pass
> a significant value via a prefix arg.
And I don't want to support this either.
If people want to write functions that behave somewhat like minor modes
but with slightly different calling conventions, they can do that just
fine with `defun'.
Stefan