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From: Nicolas Richard <theonewiththeevillook@yahoo.fr>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Nicolas Richard <theonewiththeevillook@yahoo.fr>, 19118@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#19118: 25.0.50; [patch] Change the argument names of function-put (currently: "ARG1	ARG2 ARG3")
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 21:12:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ioi9fx72.fsf@yahoo.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83ppch6dbd.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu, 20 Nov 2014 18:34:30 +0200")

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: Nicolas Richard <theonewiththeevillook@yahoo.fr>
>> Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 12:33:01 +0100
>> 
>> -  #'(lambda (f prop value) (put f prop value))
>> -  "Set function F's property PROP to VALUE.
>> +  #'(lambda (function prop value) (put function prop value))
>> +  "Set function FUNCTION's property PROP to VALUE.
>>  The namespace for PROP is shared with symbols.
>> -So far, F can only be a symbol, not a lambda expression.")
>> +So far, FUNCTION can only be a symbol, not a lambda expression.
>
> Stylistically, "function FUNCTION" is tautology.  How about this
> variant:
>
>   Set FUNCTION's property PROP to VALUE.
>   So far, FUNCTION can only be a function symbol, not a lambda
> expression.

Thanks.

Are you suggesting that "The namespace for PROP is shared with symbols."
should be removed ? Btw, is that a fancy way of saying "PROP is a
symbol" ?

-- 
Nicolas





  reply	other threads:[~2014-11-20 20:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-20 11:33 bug#19118: 25.0.50; [patch] Change the argument names of function-put (currently: "ARG1 ARG2 ARG3") Nicolas Richard
2014-11-20 16:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-20 20:12   ` Nicolas Richard [this message]
2014-11-21  2:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-11-25 12:57   ` Nicolas Richard

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