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Re: forward-paragraph return value


From: Stephen J. Turnbull
Subject: Re: forward-paragraph return value
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 17:27:23 +0900

Andreas Röhler writes:

 > Then people may write functions taking already the return value.

Sure.  But will they?  Show us examples of existing functions
(preferably already in Emacs) that would benefit from this change.
An easy example would be functions which look like

    ;; some code here
    (forward-paragraph count)
    (foo (point) other args)
    ;; more code

But it's not clear to me that

    ;; some code here
    (foo (forward-paragraph count) other args)
    ;; more code

is going to be more readable without seeing examples.  Since point has
a byte code, it's not particularly costly to use point.



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