From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: When will emacs 27.1 be officially released? Date: Sat, 04 Jul 2020 09:41:36 +0300 Message-ID: <83r1trvl27.fsf@gnu.org> References: <28BB39D5-074F-4450-A747-C2BFB37AA482@gnu.org> <87pn9g6fuo.fsf@gmail.com> <83bll0ze1x.fsf@gnu.org> <03c328d0-b446-9806-5b7b-1cda10a50eb7@cs.ucla.edu> <835zb8z84k.fsf@gnu.org> <93bffae8-e8e5-2eea-7087-5a894cbfea0c@cs.ucla.edu> <87366964py.fsf@gnu.org> <0d0bd9de-c263-931e-d534-875d64210a0f@cs.ucla.edu> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="26575"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: eggert@cs.ucla.edu, liwei.ma@gmail.com, kevin.legouguec@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 04 08:42:18 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jrbsQ-0006o4-7k for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 04 Jul 2020 08:42:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33956 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jrbsP-0001JE-9K for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 04 Jul 2020 02:42:17 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:39168) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jrbrr-0000t5-NL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Jul 2020 02:41:43 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:59016) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jrbrq-0004AF-SH; Sat, 04 Jul 2020 02:41:42 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1679 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jrbrj-0007qt-Ac; Sat, 04 Jul 2020 02:41:35 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Richard Stallman on Fri, 03 Jul 2020 22:53:54 -0400) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:252656 Archived-At: > From: Richard Stallman > Cc: eliz@gnu.org, liwei.ma@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, > kevin.legouguec@gmail.com > Date: Fri, 03 Jul 2020 22:53:54 -0400 > > Return the Nth element of LIST. > N counts from zero. If LIST is not that long, nil is returned. > > Once again, no article before an argument name. > > When the argument name is a data type name, you can take that > to mean that the value should have that type. Thus, LIST should be a list. > > Does the Texinfo manual explain these conventions? ISTR it does. If it does, I couldn't find it. The word "article" is not used anywhere in that manual, and the node that describes the @def* commands doesn't seem to say that, either. Where else to look for that?