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From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Andreas Schwab'" <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: 'Chong Yidong' <cyd@stupidchicken.com>,
	6591@debbugs.gnu.org, 'Richard Stallman' <rms@gnu.org>
Subject: bug#6591: 24.0.50; incorrect doc for `catch'
Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2010 14:44:33 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <DDC4B14BF41F4D4F891DE3C5C92653FA@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m21vb990jr.fsf@igel.home>

> > which `...' means repetition of what it follows.
> 
> Which fits perfectly.

Repetition of what it follows.
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

What does `...' follow?  BODY.
Is BODY repeated?        No.

For Emacs, `...' does not mean repetition of what it follows (per what Eli has
said).  Instead, it means that what it follows is a &rest parameter.

For Emacs, (X BODY...) means the same as (X &rest BODY) and (X . BODY).

Which, as I said, is a legitimate, if unwise and unusual, choice.
It just needs to be spelled out in the doc.

Read the thread.  I'm not going to repeat everything that has been said.






  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-07-11 21:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-09 15:52 bug#6591: 24.0.50; incorrect doc for `catch' Drew Adams
2010-07-09 17:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-09 19:36   ` Drew Adams
2010-07-10  7:48     ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-10 14:14       ` Drew Adams
2010-07-10 14:38         ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-10 15:44           ` Drew Adams
2010-07-10 15:55             ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-11  4:21               ` Drew Adams
2010-07-11  6:15                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-11  8:14                   ` Štěpán Němec
2010-07-11  9:22                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-11 10:59                       ` Štěpán Němec
2010-07-11 13:23                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-11 13:44                           ` Štěpán Němec
2010-07-11 14:00                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-11 15:26                               ` Andreas Schwab
2010-07-11 15:33                                 ` Drew Adams
2010-07-11 17:22                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]                               ` <mailman.11.1278862210.6344.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-07-11 22:36                                 ` Tim X
     [not found]                           ` <mailman.2.1278856813.6344.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-07-11 22:34                             ` Tim X
2010-12-08 15:52                               ` Drew Adams
2010-12-20 12:25                                 ` Chong Yidong
2010-07-11 15:33                   ` Drew Adams
2010-07-11 17:25                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-11 16:33                   ` Chong Yidong
2010-07-11 16:52                     ` Drew Adams
2010-07-11 17:13                       ` Chong Yidong
2010-07-11 17:58                         ` Drew Adams
2010-07-11 18:14                       ` Andreas Schwab
2010-07-11 19:10                         ` Drew Adams
2010-07-11 19:40                           ` Andreas Schwab
2010-07-11 20:07                             ` Drew Adams
2010-07-11 21:22                               ` Andreas Schwab
2010-07-11 21:42                                 ` Chong Yidong
2010-07-11 21:44                                 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2010-07-12  8:43                                   ` Andreas Schwab
2010-07-12 14:56                                     ` Drew Adams
2010-07-12 15:26                                       ` Andreas Schwab
2010-07-12 16:01                                         ` Drew Adams
2010-07-12 16:11                                           ` Andreas Schwab
2010-07-12 16:31                                             ` Drew Adams
2010-07-12 16:36                                               ` Andreas Schwab
2010-07-12 16:50                                                 ` Drew Adams
2010-07-12 18:14                                                   ` Andreas Schwab
2010-07-12 18:35                                                     ` Drew Adams
2010-07-12 18:41                                                       ` Andreas Schwab
2010-07-12 18:49                                                         ` Drew Adams
2010-07-12 17:02                                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-12 18:30                                             ` Drew Adams
2010-07-10  5:44 ` MON KEY

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