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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 18024@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#18024: 24.4.50; doc of `y-or-n-p' misses the main functionality: what it returns
Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2016 00:03:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bn4snkdd.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <11537e47-82da-4913-9f97-8afb105bdada@default> (Drew Adams's message of "Tue, 15 Jul 2014 08:23:54 -0700 (PDT)")

Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:

> 1. `y-or-n-p' is a *predicate*.  This is missing from the doc string,
> because it says nothing about what the function returns if the user
> answers `n' instead of `y'.  The doc string *must* tell users that `n'
> means return nil.

I've now changed the doc string to say what the "n" value is.

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2016-04-29 22:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-15 15:23 bug#18024: 24.4.50; doc of `y-or-n-p' misses the main functionality: what it returns Drew Adams
2014-07-15 19:36 ` Glenn Morris
2014-07-15 21:34   ` Drew Adams
2016-04-29 22:03 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]

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