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Re: CL function's docstrings


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: CL function's docstrings
Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 17:15:59 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux)

>  2) Change the argument names to match the docstrings.
>      Pros: it is the cleaner way.
>      Cons: lot of change in the cl* files; less coherence between argument
>      names among functions.

Thanks to the wonders of dynamic scoping this actually changes the
semantics subtly.  In most cases you'll never be able to tell the
difference, but when higer-order functions are involved it can be a problem;
so if you do that, be careful.


        Stefan




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