From: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Typo in defconst-1 and defvar-1 docstrings?
Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2022 18:48:17 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r0zklrf2.fsf@posteo.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87v8owlrjf.fsf@posteo.net> (Philip Kaludercic's message of "Thu, 06 Oct 2022 20:45:40 +0200")
Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> writes:
> I was reading through the implementation of defconst-1, but was confused
> by the docstring that states:
>
> More specifically behaves like (defvar SYM 'INITVALUE DOCSTRING).
>
> Isn't the point of defconst-1 as a functional variant of defconst, that
> SYM will evaluate to a symbol? And why should INITVALUE be quoted?
> Unless I am mistaken, this patch ought to resolve the confusion:
And related to defconst (which is why I was looking at the definition in
the first place), is there a way to check if a variable was declared
using defconst instead of defvar?
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-10-06 18:45 Typo in defconst-1 and defvar-1 docstrings? Philip Kaludercic
2022-10-06 18:48 ` Philip Kaludercic [this message]
2022-10-06 20:06 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-10-06 19:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-10-06 19:48 ` Philip Kaludercic
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