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From: "Štěpán Němec" <stepnem@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 6591@debbugs.gnu.org, rms@gnu.org
Subject: bug#6591: 24.0.50; incorrect doc for `catch'
Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2010 12:59:38 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8739vq9td1.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83lj9iv0dg.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sun, 11 Jul 2010 12:22:35 +0300")

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: =?utf-8?B?xaB0xJtww6FuIE7Em21lYw==?= <stepnem@gmail.com>
>> Cc: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>, 6591@debbugs.gnu.org, Richard
> Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
>> Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2010 10:14:47 +0200
>> 
>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> 
>> > Using FORM... is okay, but will need more extensive changes, so I'd
>> > rather not do it.  I'd like to simply remove the dots after BODY, and
>> > explain in the text that BODY can consist of one or more forms.
>> >
>> > Does anyone see any reason why keeping the dots in BODY... will have
>> > some didactical importance?  Richard? Stefan? Yidong?
>> 
>> Well, just look at `when' -- ISTM it has the very same "problem" as
>> discussed here. And it's probably not the only one/two.
>
> Sorry, I don't get your point.  Sure, there are places in the manual
> that use "FORM...", but that doesn't necessarily mean it's the only
> possible way of describing that.  "BODY..." is used in quite a few
> places as well, and I was only talking about those.

You were asking about BODY...
`when' uses BODY..., and IMO in `when' `BODY...' means the very same
thing as in `catch' (i.e., "any number of forms"), which you're now
apparently about to change.

Štěpán





  reply	other threads:[~2010-07-11 10:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-09 15:52 bug#6591: 24.0.50; incorrect doc for `catch' Drew Adams
2010-07-09 17:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-09 19:36   ` Drew Adams
2010-07-10  7:48     ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-10 14:14       ` Drew Adams
2010-07-10 14:38         ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-10 15:44           ` Drew Adams
2010-07-10 15:55             ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-11  4:21               ` Drew Adams
2010-07-11  6:15                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-11  8:14                   ` Štěpán Němec
2010-07-11  9:22                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-11 10:59                       ` Štěpán Němec [this message]
2010-07-11 13:23                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-11 13:44                           ` Štěpán Němec
2010-07-11 14:00                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-11 15:26                               ` Andreas Schwab
2010-07-11 15:33                                 ` Drew Adams
2010-07-11 17:22                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]                               ` <mailman.11.1278862210.6344.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-07-11 22:36                                 ` Tim X
     [not found]                           ` <mailman.2.1278856813.6344.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-07-11 22:34                             ` Tim X
2010-12-08 15:52                               ` Drew Adams
2010-12-20 12:25                                 ` Chong Yidong
2010-07-11 15:33                   ` Drew Adams
2010-07-11 17:25                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-11 16:33                   ` Chong Yidong
2010-07-11 16:52                     ` Drew Adams
2010-07-11 17:13                       ` Chong Yidong
2010-07-11 17:58                         ` Drew Adams
2010-07-11 18:14                       ` Andreas Schwab
2010-07-11 19:10                         ` Drew Adams
2010-07-11 19:40                           ` Andreas Schwab
2010-07-11 20:07                             ` Drew Adams
2010-07-11 21:22                               ` Andreas Schwab
2010-07-11 21:42                                 ` Chong Yidong
2010-07-11 21:44                                 ` Drew Adams
2010-07-12  8:43                                   ` Andreas Schwab
2010-07-12 14:56                                     ` Drew Adams
2010-07-12 15:26                                       ` Andreas Schwab
2010-07-12 16:01                                         ` Drew Adams
2010-07-12 16:11                                           ` Andreas Schwab
2010-07-12 16:31                                             ` Drew Adams
2010-07-12 16:36                                               ` Andreas Schwab
2010-07-12 16:50                                                 ` Drew Adams
2010-07-12 18:14                                                   ` Andreas Schwab
2010-07-12 18:35                                                     ` Drew Adams
2010-07-12 18:41                                                       ` Andreas Schwab
2010-07-12 18:49                                                         ` Drew Adams
2010-07-12 17:02                                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-12 18:30                                             ` Drew Adams
2010-07-10  5:44 ` MON KEY

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