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* bug#29367: 27.0.50; State and doc of `inline'
@ 2017-11-20 19:10 Michael Heerdegen
  2017-11-20 21:40 ` Glenn Morris
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 12+ messages in thread
From: Michael Heerdegen @ 2017-11-20 19:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 29367


C-h f inline gives you

| inline is an alias for `progn'.
| 
| (inline BODY...)
| 
| Eval BODY forms sequentially and return value of last one.

`inline' is quite widely used in the Emacs sources - in Gnus, for
example.  But obviously not because it is such a handy alias for
`progn'.  The byte compiler treats it very specially.

I think it is obvious that `inline' needs a real documentation, and
should not be defined as an alias, because this is very confusing.

If `inline' should not be used in new code because it is obsoleted by
better alternatives (inline.el, maybe?  I don't know), we can declare it
obsolete.  Still, as long as it is used in Emacs a lot, and developers
need to work with this code base, they need to know what `inline' is.


TIA,

Michael.


In GNU Emacs 27.0.50 (build 5, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.22.24)
 of 2017-11-18 built on drachen
Repository revision: 4da48312a230909a12d63987f865f25d45760773
Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11905000
System Description:	Debian GNU/Linux testing (buster)






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2017-11-20 22:04   ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-11-20 22:12   ` Michael Heerdegen
2017-11-21 16:11     ` Richard Stallman
2017-11-21 16:19       ` Drew Adams
2017-11-21 16:22       ` Andreas Schwab
2017-11-21 16:42       ` Michael Heerdegen
2017-11-21 17:11         ` Drew Adams
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