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.
next prev parent 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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