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| author | Vibhav Pant <vibhavp@gmail.com> | 2020-08-21 14:04:35 +0530 |
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| committer | Vibhav Pant <vibhavp@gmail.com> | 2020-08-21 14:04:35 +0530 |
| commit | f0f8d7b82492e741950c363a03b886965c91b1b0 (patch) | |
| tree | 19b716830b1ebabc0d7d75949c4e6800c0f104ad /doc/lispref/functions.texi | |
| parent | 9e64a087c4d167e7ec1c4e22bea3e6af53b563de (diff) | |
| parent | c818c29771d3cb51875643b2f6c894073e429dd2 (diff) | |
| download | emacs-feature/native-comp-macos-fixes.tar.gz | |
Merge branch 'feature/native-comp' into feature/native-comp-macos-fixesfeature/native-comp-macos-fixes
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diff --git a/doc/lispref/functions.texi b/doc/lispref/functions.texi index bc8ec0ef1b0..2898cb4d2b4 100644 --- a/doc/lispref/functions.texi +++ b/doc/lispref/functions.texi @@ -267,7 +267,8 @@ reason functions are defined to start with @code{lambda} is so that other lists, intended for other uses, will not accidentally be valid as functions. - The second element is a list of symbols---the argument variable names. + The second element is a list of symbols---the argument variable +names (@pxref{Argument List}). This is called the @dfn{lambda list}. When a Lisp function is called, the argument values are matched up against the variables in the lambda list, which are given local bindings with the values provided. @@ -342,7 +343,7 @@ stored as symbol function definitions to produce named functions (@pxref{Function Names}). @node Argument List -@subsection Other Features of Argument Lists +@subsection Features of Argument Lists @kindex wrong-number-of-arguments @cindex argument binding @cindex binding arguments @@ -583,8 +584,8 @@ a function. @defmac defun name args [doc] [declare] [interactive] body@dots{} @code{defun} is the usual way to define new Lisp functions. It defines the symbol @var{name} as a function with argument list -@var{args} and body forms given by @var{body}. Neither @var{name} nor -@var{args} should be quoted. +@var{args} (@pxref{Argument List}) and body forms given by @var{body}. +Neither @var{name} nor @var{args} should be quoted. @var{doc}, if present, should be a string specifying the function's documentation string (@pxref{Function Documentation}). @var{declare}, |