From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: Chunyang Xu <xuchunyang.me@gmail.com>, 24362@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#24362: 25.1.50; Inconsistent docstring between pcase-let and pcase-let*
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2016 00:40:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877facais4.fsf@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874c9f9a-631e-4cfc-8301-f9279228e121@default> (Drew Adams's message of "Thu, 15 Sep 2016 15:00:15 -0700 (PDT)")
Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
> So if you are talking about `foo's actual arguments for such a call
> then you can say they are 1 and 2. But if you are talking about the
> value of the &rest argument XS for such a call then you must say that
> the value is a list.
Hah Drew! Actually we are indeed defining the meaning of the actual
arguments, but we are describing the semantics of the value of the &rest
parameter to do so. That's the reason why such descriptions can be a
bit confusing at first.
Michael.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-15 22:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-04 4:26 bug#24362: 25.1.50; Inconsistent docstring between pcase-let and pcase-let* Chunyang Xu
2016-09-14 23:06 ` Robert Cochran
2016-09-15 21:36 ` Michael Heerdegen
2016-09-15 21:57 ` Robert Cochran
2016-09-15 22:00 ` Drew Adams
2016-09-15 22:40 ` Michael Heerdegen [this message]
2016-09-23 16:26 ` Michael Heerdegen
2016-09-23 20:45 ` Robert Cochran
2016-09-25 14:32 ` Michael Heerdegen
2016-09-26 23:39 ` Robert Cochran
2019-11-08 3:43 ` Stefan Kangas
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