From: "A. Lloyd Flanagan" <a.lloyd.flanagan@gmail.com>
To: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>, 24740@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#24740: 26.0.50; Bad signature for alist-get in elisp manual
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2016 01:00:15 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAF2jC4GLcXF5+DQtCLsr94Dve0HBfpKHnWOKRBF5gASG8Q3zvA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87funrq57g.fsf@gmx.net>
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Yes, good catch.
On Wed, Oct 19, 2016, 7:39 PM Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Oct 2016 21:12:00 +0300 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> >> From: a.lloyd.flanagan@gmail.com (A. Lloyd Flanagan)
> >> Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2016 13:01:51 -0400
> >>
> >> In the elisp manual, section "Association Lists", the function alist-get
> >> is shown with the signature:
> >>
> >> Function: alist-get key value &optional default remove
> >>
> >> but it should be
> >>
> >> Function: alist-get key alist &optional default remove
> >
> > Thanks, fixed on the emacs-25 branch.
>
>
> > -@defun alist-get key value &optional default remove
> > +@defun alist-get key alist &optional default remove
> > This function is like @code{assq}, but instead of returning the entire
> > -association for @var{key}, @code{(@var{key} . @var{value})}, it
> > -returns just the @var{value}. If @var{key} is not found in
> > -@var{alist} it returns @var{default}.
> > +association for @var{key} in @var{alist},
> > +@w{@code{(@var{key} . @var{value})}}, it returns just the @var{value}.
> ^^^^^^^^^^^
> > +If @var{key} is not found in @var{alist}, it returns @var{default}.
>
> Shouldn't the text be "it returns just the value", i.e. without the
> markup, since `value' is no longer a formal argument of the function
> signature?
>
> Steve Berman
>
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-10-19 17:01 bug#24740: 26.0.50; Bad signature for alist-get in elisp manual A. Lloyd Flanagan
2016-10-19 18:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-19 23:39 ` Stephen Berman
2016-10-20 1:00 ` A. Lloyd Flanagan [this message]
2016-10-20 7:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-20 8:10 ` Stephen Berman
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