From: Nicolas Petton <nicolas@petton.fr>
To: raman@google.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Minor typo in seq-let info docs
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2015 17:38:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wpwef6l5.fsf@petton.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <21985.53110.605129.708969@gargle.gargle.HOWL>
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raman@google.com writes:
> This sentence re seq-let is hard to parse -- suspect an extra "in":
>
> <cite>
> -- Macro: seq-let arguments sequence body…
> This macro binds the variables in defined in the sequence ARGUMENTS
> to the elements of the sequence SEQUENCE. ARGUMENTS can itself
> include sequences allowing for nested destructuring.
>
> --
>
> </cite>
>
> In addition, the somewhat self-referential nature of the opening
> sentence makes it confusing reading. That I am listening to it likely
> makes it harder -- adding some quoting in addition to case changes
> would make it easier reading.
>
> <rewrite>
> -- Macro: seq-let arguments sequence body…
> This macro binds the variables listed in `ARGUMENTS'
> to the elements of the sequence SEQUENCE. `ARGUMENTS' can itself
> include sequences allowing for nested destructuring.
>
> --
Indeed, thanks for the rewrite!
I will apply your changes (without quoting ARGUMENTS though, function
arguments should not be quoted in docstrings).
Nico
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2015-08-29 15:27 Minor typo in seq-let info docs raman
2015-08-29 15:38 ` Nicolas Petton [this message]
2015-08-31 22:51 ` T.V Raman
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