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Re: doc for call-process, ARGS is missing
From: |
Bastien Guerry |
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Re: doc for call-process, ARGS is missing |
Date: |
Tue, 11 Mar 2008 02:14:12 +0000 |
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Bastien Guerry <address@hidden> writes:
> "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Chong Yidong wrote:
>>> "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <address@hidden> writes:
>>>
>>>> ARGS is totally missing from the doc string.
>>>
>>> Not so:
>>>
>>> Remaining arguments are strings passed as command arguments to PROGRAM.
>>
>> Thanks Chong and Bastien, it is there, but wouldn't it be good if it
>> were more explicit?
>
> "Remaing arguments ARGS" would perhaps be clearer. But ARGS is quite a
> standard way of referring to such remaining arguments...
And looking back again to the comment, I think the reason for not using
"Remaining argument ARGS" in the first place was to keep the whole line
under 75 characters - avoiding rejection of "PROGRAM" on a third line..
:-)
--
Bastien