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Re: bug#10522: Patch: Improve optional variable and keyword notation in


From: Ludovic Courtès
Subject: Re: bug#10522: Patch: Improve optional variable and keyword notation in manual
Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:54:02 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/24.0.93 (gnu/linux)

Hello!  :-)

Andy Wingo <address@hidden> skribis:

> On Mon 16 Jan 2012 20:46, Bake Timmons <address@hidden> writes:
>> address@hidden {Scheme Procedure} resolve-module name [autoload=#t] 
>> [version=#f] [#:ensure=#t]
>> address@hidden {Scheme Procedure} resolve-module name [autoload=#t 
>> [version=#f]] @
>> +                          [#:ensure ensure=#t]
>
> Nesting the optional arguments in brackets can get a bit ugly.  It is
> precise but verbose.  But I suppose we should not encourage interfaces
> with many optional arguments, so perhaps it is a moot point.

Indeed.

> Also, it seems pedantic to repeat the keyword arguments (once as
> keyword, once as identifier).  Surely #:foo=bar is unambiguous?

That’s what I would think.

Perhaps the people behind address@hidden have something to say
about this kind of thing, since there are other Lispy packages out there
with similar features?

Thanks,
Ludo’.



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