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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: dancol@dancol.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: make-vector documentation is wrong
Date: Fri, 15 May 2020 12:58:27 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83k11d34fw.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <152fab46-8825-2e69-6c74-5309482ac1ba@cs.ucla.edu> (message from Paul Eggert on Thu, 14 May 2020 23:34:12 -0700)

> From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
> Date: Thu, 14 May 2020 23:34:12 -0700
> Cc: Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>,
>  Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> 
> Emacs currently has exactly two empty strings (one unibyte and one multibyte),
> so the phrase "the empty string" is wrong for the current implementation anyway.

the documentation doesn't have to describe the implementation, it just
needs to tell enough for the Lisp programmers to understand how to use
this stuff.



  reply	other threads:[~2020-05-15  9:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-15  1:36 make-vector documentation is wrong Daniel Colascione
2020-05-15  2:46 ` Paul Eggert
2020-05-15  2:59   ` Daniel Colascione
2020-05-15  3:19     ` Paul Eggert
2020-05-15  3:41   ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-15  6:34     ` Paul Eggert
2020-05-15  9:58       ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2020-05-15  6:49   ` Eli Zaretskii

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