From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>
Cc: 61293@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#61293: 30.0.50; [FR] Add `proper-list-p' and `plistp' to 2.7 Type Predicates section of the manual
Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2023 15:02:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83357ks1te.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871qn4e1fr.fsf@localhost> (message from Ihor Radchenko on Sun, 05 Feb 2023 12:34:00 +0000)
> From: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>
> Cc: 61293@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2023 12:34:00 +0000
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > proper-list-p was already documented. I added plistp.
>
> Thanks! Note that `proper-list-p' is not listed in section 2.7.
I don't think this should bother us. If you type "i proper list RET",
you will land in the node which describes that term; the very next
section documents proper-list-p. So I think everything here is fine.
> >> Also, what about `alistp'? Would it make sense to add such function?
> >
> > I don't know. When would it be useful?
>
> I mostly expected it is exist, but it does not.
> Also, there is `nested-alist-p'. So, not having `alistp' feels awkward.
Most probably because no one needed it, at least not too frequently.
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-02-05 12:01 bug#61293: 30.0.50; [FR] Add `proper-list-p' and `plistp' to 2.7 Type Predicates section of the manual Ihor Radchenko
2023-02-05 12:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-02-05 12:34 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-02-05 13:02 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2023-02-06 9:20 ` Robert Pluim
2023-02-06 10:19 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-02-06 10:43 ` Basil Contovounesios via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-02-06 14:21 ` Ihor Radchenko
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