Keyword lambda used as flag

Keyword lambda used as flag

[Andreas Röhler]

Hi,

there is a remark at

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/34572963/what-does-lambda-do

pointing a "'lambda" used as flag.

Don't know if it's worth changing that right know.
Just want to bring it to your attention.

Thanks,

Andreas

Re: Keyword lambda used as flag

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler@online.de>
> Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2016 09:36:41 +0100
> 
> there is a remark at
> 
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/34572963/what-does-lambda-do
> 
> pointing a "'lambda" used as flag.
> 
> Don't know if it's worth changing that right know.
> Just want to bring it to your attention.

We know.  This value of transient-mark-mode (as well as a couple of
others) is documented in the ELisp manual.  It's been there for the
last 7 years, so I think it's a bit too late to rename it now (and I'm
not sure I agree that the value was chosen poorly).

Thanks.

Re: Keyword lambda used as flag

[Tom]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
on.
> 
> We know.  This value of transient-mark-mode (as well as a couple of
> others) is documented in the ELisp manual.  It's been there for the
> last 7 years, so I think it's a bit too late to rename it now (and I'm
> not sure I agree that the value was chosen poorly).

I checked C-h v transient-mark-mode and there in the help buffer
the word lambda is linked to the help page of lambda expressions
which can be pretty confusing for the reader.

Re: Keyword lambda used as flag

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Tom <adatgyujto@gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2016 06:07:26 +0000 (UTC)
> 
> I checked C-h v transient-mark-mode and there in the help buffer
> the word lambda is linked to the help page of lambda expressions
> which can be pretty confusing for the reader.

Thanks, I fixed the doc string not to do that.