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[bug#67489] [PATCH] monad-repl: Add REPL commands to inspect package arg
From: |
Simon Tournier |
Subject: |
[bug#67489] [PATCH] monad-repl: Add REPL commands to inspect package arguments. |
Date: |
Tue, 28 Nov 2023 17:39:23 +0100 |
Re,
On Tue, 28 Nov 2023 at 17:20, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
> > Without drifting, why not the meta-command ,arguments?
>
> One can already do “,pp (package-arguments package)”, so I wanted to
> have something short and to-the-point that would improve on that.
>
> In particular, we know by convention that certain arguments can be
> interpreted as code (gexps or sexps) so we can process them do display
> them in a nice way (lowering gexps, applying the pretty printer). We
> cannot necessarily do that for other arguments where there’s no
> established convention.
Unrelated to this patch series, maybe an opportunity for establishing
some of these conventions, no?
BTW, because this potential meta ,arguments targets package developer,
I would find nice to apply what it is done with ,phases to
'package-arguments'. As I showed in my previous message, “,pp
(package-arguments package)” is not really practical. Well, anyway...
let as a exercise for the curious reader. ;-)
Cheers,
simon