From: "Basil L. Contovounesios" via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: 55562@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#55562: 28.1.50; Wrong hash table return values in Elisp manual
Date: Sat, 21 May 2022 23:29:04 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87czg6635b.fsf@tcd.ie> (raw)
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Severity: minor
Tags: patch
0. emacs -Q
1. C-h f clrhash RET
> Clear hash table TABLE and return it.
2. C-h S clrhash RET
> Common Lisp note: In Common Lisp, ‘clrhash’ returns the empty
> TABLE. In Emacs Lisp, it returns ‘nil’.
It seems the following changes never propagated to the manual:
(Fputhash): Return `value' rather than nil.
d9c4f922fb 2000-07-03 06:59:05 +0000
https://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?id=d9c4f922fb
* fns.c (Fputhash): Document return value.
a54e348216 2011-06-06 18:39:26 -0700
https://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?id=a54e348216
And the following change wasn't announced in etc/NEWS either:
(Fclrhash): Return TABLE.
ccd8f7fe14 2008-01-25 10:01:15 +0000
https://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?id=ccd8f7fe14
Is there any point in announcing the status quo, or can we just update
the manual, e.g. as follows?
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From b63ec2658f1c8782620c7418c8282f29249333cd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob@tcd.ie>
Date: Sat, 21 May 2022 23:11:33 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] Fix hash table function return values in manual
* doc/lispref/hash.texi (Hash Access): Reconcile documented return
values of puthash and clrhash with their respective docstrings.
---
doc/lispref/hash.texi | 8 +++-----
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/lispref/hash.texi b/doc/lispref/hash.texi
index a566d89824..34eda45b23 100644
--- a/doc/lispref/hash.texi
+++ b/doc/lispref/hash.texi
@@ -203,7 +203,8 @@ Hash Access
@defun puthash key value table
This function enters an association for @var{key} in @var{table}, with
value @var{value}. If @var{key} already has an association in
-@var{table}, @var{value} replaces the old associated value.
+@var{table}, @var{value} replaces the old associated value. This
+function always returns @var{value}.
@end defun
@defun remhash key table
@@ -219,10 +220,7 @@ Hash Access
@defun clrhash table
This function removes all the associations from hash table @var{table},
so that it becomes empty. This is also called @dfn{clearing} the hash
-table.
-
-@b{Common Lisp note:} In Common Lisp, @code{clrhash} returns the empty
-@var{table}. In Emacs Lisp, it returns @code{nil}.
+table. @code{clrhash} returns the empty @var{table}.
@end defun
@defun maphash function table
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2.35.1
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Thanks,
--
Basil
In GNU Emacs 28.1.50 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
of 2022-05-21 built on tia
Repository revision: 139bfa1a0884dbd2600fc1bd11d11f41d3f9ef94
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2022-05-21 20:29 Basil L. Contovounesios via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors [this message]
2022-05-22 5:10 ` bug#55562: 28.1.50; Wrong hash table return values in Elisp manual Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-27 20:43 ` Basil L. Contovounesios via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-06-28 2:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-28 7:06 ` Basil L. Contovounesios via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
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