From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: master 930c578c104: ; Improvements to PEG documentation
Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2024 17:51:44 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87il0bleqn.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87mspn8uzl.fsf@web.de
Michael Heerdegen via "Emacs development discussions."
<emacs-devel@gnu.org> writes:
> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>
>> I've fixed this -- I ended up using "anonymous function" instead,
>> mostly because the sentence was a bit confusing with just "function".
>
> Thanks.
>
> [ "Function" would have been fine with me, since it would be really
> surprising if the code would name this ad-hoc constructed function that
> is useful only once. And it doesn't matter. What matters a bit maybe
> is the signature of this function - although one can guess it. ]
It was more the language of the documentation: two "functions" in close
proximity that referred to different functions; I found it a bit
ambiguous, and awkward.
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2024-04-16 10:00 ` master 930c578c104: ; Improvements to PEG documentation Michael Albinus
2024-04-16 10:05 ` Mattias Engdegård
2024-04-17 0:33 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2024-04-17 2:38 ` Michael Heerdegen via Emacs development discussions.
2024-04-17 3:54 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2024-04-19 23:28 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2024-04-20 23:39 ` Michael Heerdegen via Emacs development discussions.
2024-04-21 0:51 ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
2024-04-17 12:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
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