From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>,
Nicolas Petton <nicolas@petton.fr>,
24014@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#24014: 24.5; doc string of `cl-reduce'
Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2021 10:32:31 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADwFkmkgRfxKiJBWXnsEB4zSwr2XBy80t16CjwYdLQ60NasK0A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fcc90aa4-6300-4934-9c90-68448e61e443@default> (Drew Adams's message of "Sun, 17 Jul 2016 21:44:50 -0700 (PDT)")
close 24014 28.1
thanks
Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
>> >> Please state in the doc string what the function does. IOW,
>> >> explain/describe/specify what "reduce" means. Do not suppose that Emacs
>> >> Lisp users are all familiar with functional programming etc.
>>
>> The documentation of `seq-reduce' is probably not perfect, but at least
>> it tries to explain what reducing means:
>>
>> Return the result of calling FUNCTION with INITIAL-VALUE and the
>> first element of SEQUENCE, then calling FUNCTION with that result and
>> the second element of SEQUENCE, then with that result and the third
>> element of SEQUENCE, etc.
>>
>> If SEQUENCE is empty, return INITIAL-VALUE and FUNCTION is not called.
>
> Much better, yes. This is the right level at which to describe what
> it does for most programmers, IMO.
Nicolas updated the docstring, and I have now done the same change in
cl.texi on the emacs-28 branch (commit 43914ab01f).
It is the same text as above, just formatted for texinfo, so it should
be understandable to us mere programmers.
I'm consequently closing this bug report.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-10-23 17:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-07-17 14:55 bug#24014: 24.5; doc string of `cl-reduce' Drew Adams
2016-07-17 15:57 ` Michael Heerdegen
2016-07-17 21:18 ` Nicolas Petton
2016-07-18 4:44 ` Drew Adams
2016-07-18 12:19 ` Nicolas Petton
2021-10-23 17:32 ` Stefan Kangas [this message]
2016-07-18 4:41 ` Drew Adams
2016-07-18 8:54 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-07-18 14:02 ` Drew Adams
2016-07-18 16:03 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-07-18 17:28 ` Drew Adams
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