From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 21581@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#21581: 25.0.50; doc string of `load'
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2015 08:22:53 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83oagldck2.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5d89275d-b8ad-4ced-b371-f40d24f08c21@default>
> Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2015 10:22:51 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
>
> Say that FILE is a string.
load is a built-in function in ‘C source code’.
(load FILE &optional NOERROR NOMESSAGE NOSUFFIX MUST-SUFFIX)
Execute a file of Lisp code named FILE.
Do you really mean we need to say explicitly that a file's name is a
string in Emacs? What else can it be? From the ELisp manual:
24.8 File Names
===============
Files are generally referred to by their names, in Emacs as elsewhere.
File names in Emacs are represented as strings. The functions that
operate on a file all expect a file name argument.
I think this is so basic that we can always say "a file's name" and
assume the reader must know it can only be a string.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-09-29 5:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-09-28 17:22 bug#21581: 25.0.50; doc string of `load' Drew Adams
2015-09-29 5:22 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2015-09-29 6:05 ` Drew Adams
2016-04-30 22:19 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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