From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
To: 24740@debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: a.lloyd.flanagan@gmail.com
Subject: bug#24740: 26.0.50; Bad signature for alist-get in elisp manual
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2016 01:39:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87funrq57g.fsf@gmx.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83d1iwus27.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Wed, 19 Oct 2016 21:12:00 +0300")
On Wed, 19 Oct 2016 21:12:00 +0300 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> From: a.lloyd.flanagan@gmail.com (A. Lloyd Flanagan)
>> Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2016 13:01:51 -0400
>>
>> In the elisp manual, section "Association Lists", the function alist-get
>> is shown with the signature:
>>
>> Function: alist-get key value &optional default remove
>>
>> but it should be
>>
>> Function: alist-get key alist &optional default remove
>
> Thanks, fixed on the emacs-25 branch.
> -@defun alist-get key value &optional default remove
> +@defun alist-get key alist &optional default remove
> This function is like @code{assq}, but instead of returning the entire
> -association for @var{key}, @code{(@var{key} . @var{value})}, it
> -returns just the @var{value}. If @var{key} is not found in
> -@var{alist} it returns @var{default}.
> +association for @var{key} in @var{alist},
> +@w{@code{(@var{key} . @var{value})}}, it returns just the @var{value}.
^^^^^^^^^^^
> +If @var{key} is not found in @var{alist}, it returns @var{default}.
Shouldn't the text be "it returns just the value", i.e. without the
markup, since `value' is no longer a formal argument of the function
signature?
Steve Berman
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-10-19 23:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-10-19 17:01 bug#24740: 26.0.50; Bad signature for alist-get in elisp manual A. Lloyd Flanagan
2016-10-19 18:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-19 23:39 ` Stephen Berman [this message]
2016-10-20 1:00 ` A. Lloyd Flanagan
2016-10-20 7:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-20 8:10 ` Stephen Berman
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