Re: Inferred function types in the *Help* buffer

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Mattias Engdegård <mattias.engdegard@gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2023 13:28:43 +0200
> Cc: Andrea Corallo <akrl@sdf.org>,
>  Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
>  emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> 
> 31 maj 2023 kl. 14.19 skrev Andrea Corallo <acorallo@gnu.org>:
> 
> >> The main reason why I'd like to move them out is not to require the load
> >> of comp.el for a simple C-h f.  Secondary yeah I think that if it's in
> >> use outside the compilation functionality should just not live there.
> > 
> > Thinking about more I can't see why we should force people to load
> > comp.el for a simple C-h f.  If this data is consumed by both comp.el
> > and help-fns.el it should stay in a commonly available place.
> 
> Let's use a separate file for the data then, rather than subr-x.el. That also 
> keeps down the size of subr-x.el which is used very widely in practice. If 
> the information is moved into function declarations then that new file will 
> just go away.

I thought we all agreed to leave it in comp.el.

Why not?