Re: coccinelle patch suggestion

[Dmitry Antipov]

On 06/28/2012 04:06 AM, John Wiegley wrote:

> > > > > > Andreas Schwab <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > > And EXFUN just adds an unneeded level of obfuscation that doesn't help code
> > > readability.
>
> > It tells you that it's a Lisp function with N arguments.  That's easier to
> > read than when you need to count them.
>
> Also, it forms a meaningful parallel with DEFUN.  When I read an EXFUN
> declaration, I know that there's a matching DEFUN.  This is not true of
> everything other function that has a prototype.

+10. Of course, it would be a toy task for coccinelle. But, IMHO,
EXFUN makes the things clearer rather than obfuscating them.

Dmitry