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From: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob@tcd.ie>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>,
	dalanicolai <dalanicolai@gmail.com>,
	"47368@debbugs.gnu.org" <47368@debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: bug#47368: [External] : bug#47368: 28.0.50; map-elt returns nil without "deprecated" TESTFN
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2021 22:59:13 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mtupr072.fsf@tcd.ie> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <SA2PR10MB44741DCD3F1F1C4174FF4A10F3619@SA2PR10MB4474.namprd10.prod.outlook.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Fri, 26 Mar 2021 22:40:34 +0000")

Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:

>> > Nothing about eq being the default, and nothing about
>> > testing being also possible with the others you mention.
>> >
>> > Not only that, but the doc string says that TESTFN
>> > is deprecated, but there's no other mention of TESTFN.
>> >
>> > What's TESTFN?  Where is it specified?  It's not part
>> > of the function signature that's shown.  How can you
>> > refer to it if there's no indication anywhere here of
>> > what it is?  This makes no sense to me.
>> 
>> All of these points are already being discussed in this thread.
>
> And yet in this thread you asked, seeming to suggest
> that the doc here is fine as is:
>
>   What would you like to see clarified in the documentation?
>
> Seems pretty clear that this doc has more than one
> problem, as I guess (hope) you acknowledge now.

You seem to have misunderstood my cited text.

The issues you have mentioned have already been acknowledged.  What
remains to be done is decide on how to improve map-elt's interface, so
that its documentation can be updated accordingly.

> FWIW, a cursory look at the code suggests the type
> can also be a plist, but the doc currently mentions
> only the other 3 types.  That too seems wrong.

This is already fixed on master, and in version 3.0 of the map.el
package on GNU ELPA: https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/map.html

-- 
Basil





  reply	other threads:[~2021-03-26 22:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-03-24 22:52 bug#47368: 28.0.50; map-elt returns nil without "deprecated" TESTFN dalanicolai
2021-03-24 23:24 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2021-03-25  2:39   ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-03-25 14:48     ` dalanicolai
2021-03-25 15:33     ` bug#47368: [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-03-26 18:47       ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2021-03-26 20:04         ` Drew Adams
2021-03-26 20:23           ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2021-03-26 22:40             ` Drew Adams
2021-03-26 22:59               ` Basil L. Contovounesios [this message]
2021-03-26  3:59     ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-03-26  7:38       ` dalanicolai
2021-03-26 13:31       ` Stefan Monnier
2021-03-26 15:32         ` dalanicolai
2021-03-26 18:57         ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2021-03-26 23:18           ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-03-27 20:37           ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2021-03-26 23:23         ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-03-26 18:58     ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2021-07-21 15:34 ` Adam Porter
2021-07-22  2:15   ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-07-31  2:15     ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-09-13 14:06       ` Adam Porter
2021-09-14 14:40         ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-09-14 20:22           ` Basil L. Contovounesios via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-09-15  0:48             ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-09-15  9:26               ` Basil L. Contovounesios via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-09-15 12:39               ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-09-15 21:53                 ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-09-15 12:50             ` Basil L. Contovounesios via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-09-15 21:55               ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-09-21 12:42                 ` Basil L. Contovounesios via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors

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