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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
Cc: cpitclaudel@gmail.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Poor quality documentation in edebug.el, and recursive documentation.
Date: Sat, 09 May 2020 08:53:14 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83o8qxhcxh.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200508195908.GC6705@ACM> (message from Alan Mackenzie on Fri,  8 May 2020 19:59:08 +0000)

> Date: Fri, 8 May 2020 19:59:08 +0000
> From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
> Cc: Clément Pit-Claudel <cpitclaudel@gmail.com>,
>  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> > Any objection to the patch below?
> 
> Quite the opposite.  :-)  Please commit it.

Once again: "Return value" doesn't sound right to me, since it implies
read-only access to the value, something that AFAIU is inaccurate.  It
actually returns a settable "place", doesn't it?



  reply	other threads:[~2020-05-09  5:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-05 20:20 Poor quality documentation in edebug.el, and recursive documentation Alan Mackenzie
2020-05-05 20:39 ` Drew Adams
2020-05-05 21:11 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2020-05-06 17:01   ` Alan Mackenzie
2020-05-06 18:20     ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-06 18:34       ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-08 19:59       ` Alan Mackenzie
2020-05-09  5:53         ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2020-05-09 13:47           ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-09 13:53             ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-09 14:56           ` Alan Mackenzie
2020-05-09 15:06             ` tomas
2020-05-09 15:12               ` Andreas Schwab
2020-05-09 15:11             ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-06 18:26     ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-05 22:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-08 19:53   ` Alan Mackenzie
2020-05-08 20:24     ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-12  6:33       ` Madhu
2020-05-12  7:42         ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-12 14:04         ` cl-generic misdesign (was: Poor quality documentation in edebug.el, and recursive documentation) Stefan Monnier
2020-05-14  5:03           ` Richard Stallman

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