From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#52290: 28.0.90; Undocumented generalized variables Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2022 12:41:27 +0200 Message-ID: <87tu63s0mg.fsf@gnus.org> References: <5d87e4ab47875790076e932351fe8f25@webmail.orcon.net.nz> <87ilw3vnp7.fsf@gnus.org> <87mtlfu5u4.fsf@gnus.org> <87v8qlkyvw.fsf@gnus.org> <878rnfkel7.fsf@web.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="2238"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: Phil Sainty , 52290@debbugs.gnu.org, Stefan Monnier To: Michael Heerdegen Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 23 12:42:12 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oQRMK-0000Kr-6P for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; 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Original-Received: from [84.212.220.105] (helo=joga) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oQRLb-0007Wd-Lz; Tue, 23 Aug 2022 12:41:29 +0200 In-Reply-To: <878rnfkel7.fsf@web.de> (Michael Heerdegen's message of "Tue, 23 Aug 2022 02:07:00 +0200") Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwBAMAAAClLOS0AAAABGdBTUEAALGPC/xhBQAAACBj SFJNAAB6JgAAgIQAAPoAAACA6AAAdTAAAOpgAAA6mAAAF3CculE8AAAAD1BMVEXLuH7BqVJGOifN XUX////ApvMBAAAAAWJLR0QEj2jZUQAAAAd0SU1FB+YIFwojMoqe1e8AAAGdSURBVDjLbZOLkcQg CIbxtgHRBiI0sEr/vR0/PpK9PWcyIXy8MUSfJx+JKfmz5HNyotKERTIlkVYEpwUiF/DFAUIlGzAM +7SW6nauaExFeMgJI3gxHgdD/gA8jZq0sUMNhCpI2sRz9Kgk4qmDPl0pqnUwC3XAPAG8V8INwnmD aEZ7AF0eceJDa4D2DYryqkNo1T+LLWbOoFLyrDrcdoKoA4V0UmYz69VwoqXEVZSxA6jmq8cqMrtZ JPdYNg+IL2wDmUlEbRWqQw+IGgH057r72EBjAYT3aXCzfnEygDLCECAy9KwvMzHiqTlALm/fhlFd mrEnc73UiZKhhw00gFfnwJd9AxcwG8QI0BcICxR3DSGXAxRB6BXOJoiF//iG6vZA5yj1E5gMzCpG 6oGKXCmmPzdjD9Bec+x8g7isErbYxwE2b3GqxqPgT1GMJPaGP444MRceI98elgNk3zf39AjlLrgD id9U/bd9PUFCOfULGM1r5Mo39P0GKTpb1k8wW176B+gB+vk6wOV6bvAH2BGW0P0y/KOHC/ENbpue 7BdGeJat82m2jwAAACV0RVh0ZGF0ZTpjcmVhdGUAMjAyMi0wOC0yM1QxMDozNTo1MCswMDowMHy9 1JUAAAAldEVYdGRhdGU6bW9kaWZ5ADIwMjItMDgtMjNUMTA6MzU6NTArMDA6MDAN4GwpAAAAAElF TkSuQmCC X-Now-Playing: Eats Tapes's _Still Works_: "Ricochet" X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:240519 Archived-At: Michael Heerdegen writes: > Can we try to find a better wording? Not the function is a generalized > variable, a form that is a call of the function is. This is also a > wording that the manual uses. Generalized variables are an abstract > concept that not everybody is used to; I think we should be more > accurate to avoid to confuse people. Yes, please do tweak the wording. I couldn't find any concise way of saying something here accurately, so I went for vague instead (note that I don't mention "function" anywhere in the text), and just punt to the manual.