From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Deniz Dogan'" <deniz.a.m.dogan@gmail.com>
Cc: 6493@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#6493:
Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2010 07:18:57 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6B20ABD762564DE2AEBA810B54EB46FD@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimb3_bPvoJMQyDYnZaQIre8x0n6uSoq6bqVemMe@mail.gmail.com>
> > "Returns point or mark, whichever is larger."
>
> How about this (for region-end):
>
> "Returns point or mark, whichever is larger.
> The returned value is the position of the end of the region
> as an integer."
The end of the region is always a position, so no need to speak of the position
of the end of the region.
We don't really need to say that a number is returned, as opposed to a marker.
"Point" is a position, which is a number (natnump). "Mark" is more ambiguous -
it is sometimes referred to as a marker and sometimes as the position of that
marker. So it's probably good to mention that a number is returned, even if not
really necessary. (We also need not specify what kind of number, since it is a
position, but that doesn't hurt either.)
"Returns the larger of point or mark, as a nonnegative integer."
We can add that the function "raises an error if the mark is not set".
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-27 14:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-22 16:13 bug#6493: 24.0.50; doc strings of region-beginning, region-end Drew Adams
2010-06-27 12:26 ` bug#6493: Deniz Dogan
2010-06-27 13:52 ` bug#6493: Drew Adams
2010-06-27 14:02 ` bug#6493: Deniz Dogan
2010-06-27 14:18 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2010-06-27 14:29 ` bug#6493: Deniz Dogan
2010-06-27 14:33 ` bug#6493: Drew Adams
2010-07-10 23:41 ` bug#6493: Deniz Dogan
2010-07-11 4:20 ` bug#6493: Drew Adams
2010-07-23 0:12 ` bug#6493: Juanma Barranquero
2010-07-23 9:10 ` bug#6493: Deniz Dogan
2010-07-23 9:30 ` bug#6493: Juanma Barranquero
2010-07-23 15:45 ` bug#6493: Chong Yidong
2010-07-23 16:16 ` bug#6493: Drew Adams
2010-07-23 17:02 ` bug#6493: Stephen Berman
2010-07-23 17:26 ` bug#6493: Drew Adams
2010-07-23 17:32 ` bug#6493: Juanma Barranquero
2010-07-29 11:44 ` bug#6493: Juanma Barranquero
2010-07-29 15:16 ` bug#6493: Johan Bockgård
2010-08-01 19:01 ` bug#6493: Juanma Barranquero
2010-08-01 21:17 ` bug#6493: Drew Adams
2010-08-02 3:30 ` bug#6493: Juanma Barranquero
2010-08-02 5:09 ` bug#6493: Drew Adams
2010-08-02 5:34 ` bug#6493: Drew Adams
2010-08-02 6:43 ` bug#6493: Juanma Barranquero
2010-07-29 15:58 ` bug#6493: Chong Yidong
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