From: Chen Zhaoyang <chenzhauyang@gmail.com>
To: David Ongaro <david.ongaro@hamburg.de>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Escape syntax in docstrings
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2023 12:22:58 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ileqkqrx.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2y1nmdtv6.fsf@hamburg.de> (David Ongaro's message of "Fri, 24 Mar 2023 08:58:05 -0700")
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
that has been posted to gmane.emacs.devel as well.
David Ongaro <david.ongaro@hamburg.de> writes:
> I want to point out that this doesn't mean you have to replace every
> backslash by fn. You can just use an escaped backslash (i.e. \\) and it
> will yield a \ in the help.
That is true indeed. I changed it to `fn` mainly because the familiarity
of this form in ML. It would make it more sense to use the backslash in
the context of languages still backslash to represent lambdas, which is a
form that they inherited from the Cambridge LCF, I believe.
--
Chen Zhaoyang
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-03-24 17:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-03-23 22:32 Escape syntax in docstrings Chen Zhaoyang
2023-03-24 13:22 ` Mattias Engdegård
2023-03-24 15:58 ` David Ongaro
2023-03-24 17:22 ` Chen Zhaoyang [this message]
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2023-03-23 20:46 Chen Zhaoyang
2023-03-23 22:02 ` Mattias Engdegård
2023-03-24 16:17 ` James Cloos
2023-03-24 21:17 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-03-28 12:14 ` Robert Pluim
2023-03-28 12:27 ` Andreas Schwab
2023-03-28 15:23 ` Robert Pluim
2023-03-24 4:04 ` Ruijie Yu via Emacs development discussions.
2023-03-24 4:44 ` Chen Zhaoyang
2023-03-24 18:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-03-24 19:58 ` Chen Zhaoyang
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