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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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Sat, 19 Oct 2019 10:20:28 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> > 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?
>
> The benefit would be to simplify the specs for Edebug specs.
>
> The cost would be to fix the existing ones -- if they would need changing.
> Would any existing correct ones need changing?
They wouldn't need changing, but it'd be confusing (for people reading
the code) to have some specs with &repeat and some with &rest, so I
think we should change them all if we decide to introduce the &repeat
alias.
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