From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Juri Linkov'" <juri@jurta.org>
Cc: 10057@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#10057: 24.0.91; doc string of `Info-find-file'
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 10:29:14 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <F66BC64FD27247CA8778798B2BDFDE38@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wrb0p2nf.fsf@mail.jurta.org>
> Drew, it's __so difficult__ to figure out from your documentation
> bug reports what and how you actually want to fix
It's a joke, right? What part of this problem statement (your "what") is so
difficult to understand?
>> This says only what a value of `t' means.
>> It does not say what other non-nil values mean.
As to "how" I would like it to be fixed, that really doesn't matter much, does
it? It should be enough to point out the problem, especially in a trivial case
such as this.
In any case, I did say how I would like to see it fixed:
>> Please state clearly and completely what NOERROR means.
However that might be done would be fine with me. The "how" isn't important.
So far, we explain what a `nil' value means and what a `t' value means. That's
clear as far as it goes, but it is not complete, which means that in the end it
is also not clear.
Singling out the particular non-nil value `t' this way leaves the reader
wondering. Unless, that is, s?he assumes Stefan's general rule that anything
not mentioned is unpredictable and unsupported.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-16 18:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-15 20:30 bug#10057: 24.0.91; doc string of `Info-find-file' Drew Adams
2011-11-15 21:39 ` Juri Linkov
2011-11-15 21:56 ` Drew Adams
2011-11-15 22:17 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-11-15 22:21 ` Drew Adams
2011-11-15 21:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-11-15 22:08 ` Drew Adams
2011-11-16 2:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-11-16 2:29 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-11-16 3:05 ` Drew Adams
2011-11-16 3:24 ` Glenn Morris
2011-11-16 5:23 ` Drew Adams
2011-11-16 4:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-11-16 5:24 ` Drew Adams
2011-11-16 8:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-11-16 14:52 ` Drew Adams
2011-11-16 18:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-11-16 18:29 ` Drew Adams
2011-11-16 18:43 ` Memnon Anon
2011-11-16 19:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-11-16 17:03 ` Juri Linkov
2011-11-16 18:29 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2011-11-16 19:31 ` Juri Linkov
2011-11-16 20:04 ` Drew Adams
2011-11-16 20:28 ` Juri Linkov
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