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In GNU Emacs 18.55.4 of Tue Mar 20 1990 on nericad (berkeley-unix)

I would like to pass on a hint from Scott D Kalter (sdk@twinsun.com)
on how to improve the readability of optional argument switches.
It is normally hard to remember what they do since there's a wealth of them.

"When using these optional arguments, they often
need only to be non-nil which is a great opportunity to put some
"documentation" of what you are doing in there!  For instance, if we
want query-replace to replace words only, we normally write like this :

      (query-replace arg1 arg2 t)

But this is equivalent and much clearer :

      (query-replace arg1 arg2 'match-words)

Now when you look at that call again, you might have a chance of
remembering what that third argument means."


Jonas Jaernestroem              email:  etxjojm@ericad.ericsson.se
Ericsson Telecom STOCKHOLM