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From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
To: Tino Calancha <tino.calancha@gmail.com>
Cc: Nicolas Petton <nicolas@petton.fr>,
	27584@debbugs.gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca
Subject: bug#27584: 26.0.50; alist-get: Add optional arg TESTFN
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2017 19:36:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h8yhy2uk.fsf@drachen> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871spnwcsj.fsf@calancha-pc> (Tino Calancha's message of "Tue, 11 Jul 2017 18:19:56 +0900")

Tino Calancha <tino.calancha@gmail.com> writes:

> -@defun alist-get key alist &optional default remove
> [...]
> -This is a generalized variable (@pxref{Generalized Variables}) that
> +The return value is a generalized variable (@pxref{Generalized

I don't think this is good wording.  When `alist-get' returns 1, do we
really want to call `1' a generalized variable?

What is settable is the place (expression), so I think we instead call
the expression of the function call "generalized variable".


Michael.





  reply	other threads:[~2017-07-12 17:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-07-05  3:22 bug#27584: 26.0.50; alist-get: Add optional arg TESTFN Tino Calancha
2017-07-05  8:53 ` Tino Calancha
2017-07-05  9:19 ` Nicolas Petton
2017-07-05 13:18   ` Tino Calancha
2017-07-06  6:05     ` Tino Calancha
2017-07-06  6:13       ` Stefan Monnier
2017-07-06  6:20         ` Tino Calancha
2017-07-06  9:36           ` Nicolas Petton
2017-07-06 10:55             ` Tino Calancha
2017-07-06 11:06               ` Nicolas Petton
2017-07-06 15:07           ` Stefan Monnier
2017-07-07  6:48             ` Tino Calancha
2017-07-07  7:46               ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-07-07  8:09               ` Nicolas Petton
2017-07-07 15:53               ` Stefan Monnier
2017-07-09 14:45                 ` Tino Calancha
2017-07-10 12:04                   ` Michael Heerdegen
2017-07-10 12:28                     ` Tino Calancha
2017-07-10 12:38                       ` Michael Heerdegen
2017-07-10 12:47                   ` Michael Heerdegen
2017-07-10 13:02                     ` Tino Calancha
2017-07-10 13:18                       ` Michael Heerdegen
2017-07-10 12:50               ` Michael Heerdegen
2017-07-06 14:56       ` Nicolas Petton
2017-07-07  6:39         ` Tino Calancha
2017-07-07  8:11           ` Nicolas Petton
2017-07-07  8:22             ` Tino Calancha
2017-07-07  8:34               ` Nicolas Petton
2017-07-07 15:49                 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-07-07 15:54                   ` Nicolas Petton
2017-07-07 19:47                   ` Nicolas Petton
2017-07-08  6:30                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-07-08  7:02                       ` Tino Calancha
2017-07-08  7:14                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-07-08 11:32                           ` Nicolas Petton
2017-07-08 11:46                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-07-09 14:48                               ` Tino Calancha
2017-07-09 19:18                               ` Nicolas Petton
2017-07-11  8:08                               ` Nicolas Petton
2017-07-11  9:19                                 ` Tino Calancha
2017-07-12 17:36                                   ` Michael Heerdegen [this message]
2017-07-14  5:19                                     ` Tino Calancha
2017-07-14 11:16                                       ` Nicolas Petton
2017-07-17 13:38                                         ` Tino Calancha
2017-08-01 16:37                                 ` Nicolas Petton
2017-08-01 16:49                                   ` Nicolas Petton
2017-08-01 18:53                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-07-08 11:29                         ` Nicolas Petton

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