bug#3752: 23.0.95; I can not understant a sentence in Intro to Emacs Lisp .

bug#3752: 23.0.95; I can not understant a sentence in Intro to Emacs Lisp .

[waterloo]

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In section 8.5.1 in the manual `Introduction to Emacs Lisp'.  I can
not understant what is `readily settable variable' in second
paragraph.  Thanks . waterloo2005@gmail.com

In GNU Emacs 23.0.95.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.14.7)
 of 2009-06-21 on laptop
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.10503000
configured using `configure  '--prefix=/usr' '--build=i686-pc-linux-gnu'
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bug#3752: 23.0.95; I can not understant a sentence in Intro to Emacs Lisp .

[Glenn Morris]

waterloo wrote:

> --text follows this line--
> In section 8.5.1 in the manual `Introduction to Emacs Lisp'.  I can
> not understant what is `readily settable variable' in second
> paragraph.

Does the following make it clearer?

   When you specified a variable using the `defvar' special form, you
   could distinguish a variable that a user might want to change from
   others by typing an asterisk,...

It should be read in the context of the previous paragraph.

bug#3752: 23.0.95; I can not understant a sentence in Intro to Emacs Lisp .

[waterloo]

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yes,it is clearer . thanks

In 11.1.2 An Example:`print-elements-of-list', I can not understand why
there is a `nil' in the context .

thanks
If I shoud file a new bug for this question?
I still use emacs23.0.95 .

2009/7/5 Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>

> waterloo wrote:
>
> > --text follows this line--
> > In section 8.5.1 in the manual `Introduction to Emacs Lisp'.  I can
> > not understant what is `readily settable variable' in second
> > paragraph.
>
> Does the following make it clearer?
>
>   When you specified a variable using the `defvar' special form, you
>   could distinguish a variable that a user might want to change from
>   others by typing an asterisk,...
>
> It should be read in the context of the previous paragraph.
>

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bug#3752: 23.0.95; I can not understant a sentence in Intro to Emacs Lisp .

[Glenn Morris]

[Please use "reply to all".]

waterloo wrote (on Sun, 5 Jul 2009 at 10:13 +0800):

> yes,it is clearer . thanks
> 
> In 11.1.2 An Example:`print-elements-of-list', I can not understand why
> there is a `nil' in the context .

This is explained at the end of the section:

 Since the last expression in the function is the `while' loop, and
 since `while' loops always return `nil', a `nil' is printed after the
 last element of the list.

bug#3752: 23.0.95; I can not understant a sentence in Intro to Emacs Lisp .

[waterloo]

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when test of while is nil , it does not run `print' following it.
who  does print nil ?

or  if all function will print its return value ?

thanks

2009/7/5 Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>

>
> [Please use "reply to all".]
>
> waterloo wrote (on Sun, 5 Jul 2009 at 10:13 +0800):
>
> > yes,it is clearer . thanks
> >
> > In 11.1.2 An Example:`print-elements-of-list', I can not understand why
> > there is a `nil' in the context .
>
> This is explained at the end of the section:
>
>  Since the last expression in the function is the `while' loop, and
>  since `while' loops always return `nil', a `nil' is printed after the
>  last element of the list.
>

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bug#3752: 23.0.95; I can not understant a sentence in Intro to Emacs Lisp .

[Glenn Morris]

waterloo wrote:

> when test of while is nil , it does not run `print' following it.
> who  does print nil ?
>
> or  if all function will print its return value ?

As explained in the earlier section of the manual (on "Evaluation"),
evaluating a function with C-x C-e prints the return value. For example

(+ 2 2)

or

(progn
  (princ "Evaluating with C-x C-e prints the return value.\n")
  42)