From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Michael Heerdegen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#24362: 25.1.50; Inconsistent docstring between pcase-let and pcase-let* Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2016 00:40:43 +0200 Message-ID: <877facais4.fsf@web.de> References: <87fup2nkry.fsf@cochranmail.com> <87k2ecalre.fsf@web.de> <874c9f9a-631e-4cfc-8301-f9279228e121@default> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1473979286 22746 195.159.176.226 (15 Sep 2016 22:41:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 22:41:26 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1 (gnu/linux) Cc: Chunyang Xu , 24362@debbugs.gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 16 00:41:22 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bkfLH-0004gk-1R for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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Thu, 15 Sep 2016 22:41:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 24362) by debbugs.gnu.org; 15 Sep 2016 22:41:01 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60845 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bkfL3-0002bS-2i for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 15 Sep 2016 18:41:01 -0400 Original-Received: from mout.web.de ([212.227.15.14]:52228) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bkfL1-0002bF-Rd for 24362@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 15 Sep 2016 18:41:00 -0400 Original-Received: from drachen.dragon ([90.186.1.83]) by smtp.web.de (mrweb003) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0M3BeZ-1auLrW1H6N-00svXv; Fri, 16 Sep 2016 00:40:45 +0200 In-Reply-To: <874c9f9a-631e-4cfc-8301-f9279228e121@default> (Drew Adams's message of "Thu, 15 Sep 2016 15:00:15 -0700 (PDT)") X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:twK8nLOLvQ9Bk4LY/peMGnc1yZ1qM/PTw+0FeWfRXg5Sizfr+od chwYVDqRqsDXQzT5Yv8cq2bcOmkAr0bQ6FNj6/xUVWVnL/SOHkCWHgXacuq1mvl9W9LUiKU QXg4NFHo3hEcB+wbxRlP8ZFSUO1fBQ4UzkJkQnTE+G0+zMRvij1qLMxNjq5rrSdsvBgEyGz 10SAp2XWfZiBttnyagsbg== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:UbYbxTJgsLg=:zZnTjUxyxzr8EJ2fedd/d8 Hcby8nBLai6KpM+i9eRFTVMcE9IAe8W5o9dphrc/YbQ5EheGED8rLXfp8ZRG25OoNwkDlcVCw yuGbAO8QjwCHYVeNPi3joEMKzocyPiu4dIkpNFZOi5VtbnLnHsRdak00RyNlw00zgk7gtL9K3 1/Kn/DLeWLdoTekE7oPZL225PMY+TUkzsW7Ij7zrDOwUkt67LJoZXT3qRVtObJQXDo76V1aYS nlzLZhAvh0KLyvdW0RBEvNkpNHn0c5jBfD5gXt9anppacITNQayXgauAlzZ5t24qHLQaDh+rW Lx19cLGKRSyYMelG7lBmggDBlTgiutDlaNSSISPK7ARb17zrCl8/t4piUAeREyKY6JsqIzg29 vqbk/zP3bzqoyJOWCwxuKoPEPWRMQ9ZNyqNcgObF5fXfd7uW1EXsnmIw4/i+BWXxqQcSJ3su4 Uv5iUQpvt8iwp7uWndL768HpX5WpVElbnpDKaOfIU5BMlP0ErnyTyHp1KcMxEc2myD3XhuQsU 95BrurnzKq1XMobDW8QF5k2lbKiCKWvkV+CvzWck+YlnqdjrVv1EJ3RFZa18CKQEo3KaplC3I J5rmk4fAmxy7Ykdx+VpcsdN9drRjz9hkx3M9nitOpMTUtskDPbkoFO2rQM+ei8afd4q5xoGkI ktbViqWHuDLyYuKW9WjJYswAiCDqml/Se6zSJu7EBbxnTA7urF1Kecdm9OLQvtnWjnb4opZdq UbWf/8Yqdz2tnINizF1NGMkF2MZTPk5/MafPDg7viIhsg/w9dxPkAnEZJCs/58l8GKJ4PFFd X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:123365 Archived-At: Drew Adams 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.