From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>, 25461@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#25461: Missing doc strings for "," and ",@".
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2017 02:44:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h94xdtvn.fsf@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170117204119.GC4169@acm.fritz.box> (Alan Mackenzie's message of "Tue, 17 Jan 2017 20:41:19 +0000")
Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:
> I don't expect the typical novice Elisp hacker cares about such nice
> distinctions. She can get a doc string for `, so why not one for , or
> ,@?
' and #' also "don't have a docstring". That ` "has a docstring" is
just coincidence - because the reader transforms
`expr
to
(` expr)
and the symbol ` has an associated symbol-function.
FWIW when I first saw `, , and ,@, it looked strange enough to me to
open the manual, because the syntax seemed so unusual that I believed
that I missed an essential part of knowledge about Elisp. At least this
is what I think happened...
But I agree that some people might try C-h f on any of these, and we
would not all die if we would show something useful in this case. We
could just say that C-f explains symbol functions and "reader macros"
and the thing would still be consistent.
OTOH, I think that saying anything about `pcase' there would be a bad
idea.
Michael.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-01-18 1:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-01-16 21:22 bug#25461: Missing doc strings for "," and ",@" Alan Mackenzie
2017-01-17 19:34 ` Glenn Morris
2017-01-17 19:56 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-01-17 20:36 ` Andreas Schwab
2017-01-17 20:41 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-01-17 20:53 ` Andreas Schwab
2017-01-18 1:44 ` Michael Heerdegen [this message]
2017-01-18 19:28 ` Alan Mackenzie
[not found] ` <handler.25461.B.148460180922707.ack@debbugs.gnu.org>
2017-01-18 19:43 ` bug#25461: [Patch]: " Alan Mackenzie
2017-01-19 0:16 ` npostavs
2017-01-19 17:37 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-01-19 18:10 ` Noam Postavsky
2017-01-19 18:36 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-01-20 0:24 ` Michael Heerdegen
2017-01-19 2:23 ` Michael Heerdegen
2017-01-19 17:58 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-01-20 0:12 ` Michael Heerdegen
2017-01-20 16:58 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-01-21 2:26 ` Michael Heerdegen
2017-01-21 15:56 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-01-21 20:46 ` bug#25461: [Patch #2]: " Alan Mackenzie
2017-01-24 1:58 ` Michael Heerdegen
2017-01-24 19:43 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-01-24 4:01 ` npostavs
2017-01-24 19:39 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-01-24 20:00 ` Noam Postavsky
2017-01-23 19:09 ` bug#25461: [Patch]: " Alan Mackenzie
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