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From: Adam Porter <adam@alphapapa.net>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add NO-STATS switch to org-get-heading
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2020 13:50:33 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k13o143q.fsf@alphapapa.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20200313151145.29469-1-brice@waegenei.re

Please don't add more arguments to org-get-heading.  It used to have 2,
then it had 4, and now you want to add a 5th.  Every time the function's
signature changes, it breaks code in third-party packages and user code
in random places, which requires the addition of messy compatibility
code and intermediate functions that do nothing but wrap org-get-heading
with a certain number of arguments.

It would be much preferable to make a new function that uses keyword
arguments so the addition of more arguments won't affect existing code.
Maybe it could be called org-entry-heading.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-03-13 18:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-13 15:11 [PATCH] Add NO-STATS switch to org-get-heading Brice Waegeneire
2020-03-13 17:22 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2020-03-13 17:37   ` Nicolas Goaziou
2020-03-13 17:41   ` Brice Waegeneire
2020-03-13 18:50 ` Adam Porter [this message]
2020-03-15  0:24   ` stardiviner

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