From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org, Paul Pogonyshev <pogonyshev@gmx.net>
Subject: Re: dotimes-with-progress-reporter doc string lacks SPEC
Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2006 23:40:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <85y7v6v2c5.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7dbe73ed0607061437g5c1b59a3o87d6a28cf14c0ac6@mail.gmail.com> (Mathias Dahl's message of "Thu, 6 Jul 2006 23:37:24 +0200")
"Mathias Dahl" <mathias.dahl@gmail.com> writes:
>> Well, the same applies to `dotimes'.
>
> This is interesting. Here is the source for the `dotimes' macro:
>
> (defmacro dotimes (spec &rest body)
> "Loop a certain number of times.
> Evaluate BODY with VAR bound to successive integers from 0, inclusive,
> to COUNT, exclusive. Then evaluate RESULT to get return value, default
> nil.
>
> \(fn (VAR COUNT [RESULT]) BODY...)"
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> When loaded (or is it compiled?) though (I just made a dummy call to
> it), the documentation string says this:
>
> dotimes is a Lisp macro in `cl-macs'.
> (dotimes (VAR COUNT [RESULT]) BODY...)
> Not mentioning any `spec' at all.
>
> Anyone care to explain this magic?
See above.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-06 21:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-06 20:44 dotimes-with-progress-reporter doc string lacks SPEC Lennart Borgman
2006-07-06 21:28 ` Paul Pogonyshev
2006-07-06 21:37 ` Mathias Dahl
2006-07-06 21:40 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2006-07-06 21:48 ` Lennart Borgman
2006-07-07 5:58 ` Mathias Dahl
2006-07-07 11:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-07-07 12:07 ` Lennart Borgman
2006-07-07 15:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-07-07 15:34 ` Lennart Borgman
2006-07-07 15:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-07-07 16:10 ` Lennart Borgman
2006-07-07 19:31 ` Richard Stallman
2006-07-07 22:29 ` Lennart Borgman
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