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| author | Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se> | 2021-10-23 18:42:14 +0200 |
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| committer | Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se> | 2021-10-23 18:47:00 +0200 |
| commit | ef37a86cacab221aa26fc8c2f746626e6e81ebc6 (patch) | |
| tree | 9da4f3823057dc774a35e4293d77185e60856c18 /doc/lispref/functions.texi | |
| parent | 1e8be48738e1324edb9891ff6f7077bd1306cdd7 (diff) | |
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Improve documentation of apply-partially
* doc/lispref/functions.texi (Calling Functions): Improve
documentation of 'apply-partially' to be slightly more clear with
regards to function arity. (Bug#17623)
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/lispref/functions.texi')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/lispref/functions.texi | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/lispref/functions.texi b/doc/lispref/functions.texi index c856557c3cb..f95c6d3656b 100644 --- a/doc/lispref/functions.texi +++ b/doc/lispref/functions.texi @@ -826,12 +826,13 @@ This function returns a new function which, when called, will call @var{func} with the list of arguments composed from @var{args} and additional arguments specified at the time of the call. If @var{func} accepts @var{n} arguments, then a call to @code{apply-partially} with -@w{@code{@var{m} < @var{n}}} arguments will produce a new function of +@w{@code{@var{m} <= @var{n}}} arguments will produce a new function of @w{@code{@var{n} - @var{m}}} arguments. Here's how we could define the built-in function @code{1+}, if it didn't exist, using @code{apply-partially} and @code{+}, another -built-in function: +built-in function:@footnote{Note that unlike the built-in function +this version accepts any number of arguments.} @example @group |