bug#49316: Add apply-partially's right version

[daanturo]

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Re-write the NEWS entry of apply-rpartially.




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From 339b0ed82dbc0430ce71294f04a53547f532c1af Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daanturo <daanturo@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2021 23:24:37 +0700
Subject: [PATCH] Better explanation for apply-rpartially in NEWS

* etc/NEWS (Lisp Changes in Emacs 28.1): Better explanation for
apply-rpartially
---
etc/NEWS | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index be30d6c859..a06456035c 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -2911,8 +2911,8 @@ The former is now declared obsolete.

+++
** New function 'apply-rpartially'.
-Functionally equivalent to 'apply-partially' but arguments are aligned
-to the right instead.
+This is almost similar to 'apply-partially' except that the last
+arguments are fixed instead of first ones.

+++
** New function 'syntax-class-to-char'.
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2.32.0


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On 7/2/21 1:45 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: daanturo <daanturo@gmail.com>
> > Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2021 00:06:35 +0700
> > Cc: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob@tcd.ie>
> >
> > (Please ignore my immediately precededing email, I'm sorry for not being
> > used to sending patches by mailing list.)
> I see no problems in the preceding email, so I think you have nothing
> to apologize for.
>
> > +@defun apply-rpartially func &rest args
> > +This function does mostly the same as @code{apply-partially}, but
> > +@var{args} are aligned to the right of @var{func}'s parameters
> > +instead.
> I don't think this explains the purpose of the function clearly
> enough.  The documentation of apply-partially doesn't mention any
> "alignment", so it's hard to understand what you want to say here.
> Can you think of a better description?
>
> > +@example
> > +@group
> > +(defalias 'square (apply-rpartially #'expt 2)
> > + "Return argument squared.")
> > +@end group
> > +@group
> > +(square 3)
> > + @result{} 9
> > +@end group
> > +@end example
> IMO, the example could be more revealing if you could contrast
> apply-rpartially with apply-partially.
>
> > ++++
> > +** New function 'apply-rpartially'.
> > +Funcionally equivalent to 'apply-partially' but arguments are aligned
> > +to the right instead.
> After we find a good wording for the manual, we should think how to
> reword the NEWS entry accordingly.
>
> Thanks.

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Daanturo.

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