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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Gregory Heytings <ghe@sdf.org>,
	"Gregory Heytings via Emacs development discussions."
	<emacs-devel@gnu.org>,
	emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: master 1e3b0f2: Improve doc strings of project.el
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2020 11:53:27 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9414A931-C678-4741-8B77-4F9FD2ECC339@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.NEB.2.21.2007130945240394.13269@sdf.lonestar.org>

On July 13, 2020 10:52:57 AM GMT+03:00, "Gregory Heytings via Emacs development discussions." <emacs-devel@gnu.org> wrote:
> 
> > IOW, doing that does NOT make these details part of the public API
> which 
> > we promise shall remain stable.
> >
> 
> I might be wrong, but in that case I think Dmitry's viewpoint is that
> this 
> information should not be placed in the doc strings, but in the
> comments 
> in the source file.

Maybe so, but the suggestion to move what I added to the doc strings into comments was never voiced by Dmitry until the very last message, and even there he is still firmly against documenting the form of the return value, no matter where.



  reply	other threads:[~2020-07-13  8:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 149+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20200619075401.21856.16524@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org>
     [not found] ` <20200619075402.CE1D220A27@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org>
2020-06-19 11:01   ` master 1e3b0f2: Improve doc strings of project.el Dmitry Gutov
2020-06-19 11:24     ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-06-19 11:37       ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2020-06-19 11:50         ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-06-19 12:30       ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-06-19 12:44         ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-06-19 12:54           ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-06-19 13:27             ` Philip K.
2020-06-19 13:34               ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-06-19 14:11               ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-06-19 14:18                 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-06-19 14:24                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-06-19 14:41                     ` Philip K.
2020-06-20  7:22                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-06-19 14:25                 ` Theodor Thornhill
2020-06-19 14:37                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-06-19 14:49                     ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-06-19 15:11                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-06-19 18:33                         ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-06-19 19:01                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-06-19 19:28                             ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-06-20  6:43                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-06-20  7:43                                 ` Theodor Thornhill
2020-06-20  8:55                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-06-20  9:29                                     ` Theodor Thornhill
2020-06-20 10:07                                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-06-20 10:19                                         ` Theodor Thornhill
2020-06-20 11:37                                           ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-06-20 11:35                                         ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-06-20 12:32                                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-06-20 22:21                                             ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-06-20 11:29                                     ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-06-20 11:46                                       ` Kévin Le Gouguec
2020-06-20 11:57                                         ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-06-20 12:37                                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-06-20 21:18                                             ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-06-20 12:25                                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-06-20 23:17                                         ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-06-20 11:25                                 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-06-20 12:12                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-06-20 12:30                                     ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2020-06-20 12:42                                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-06-20 23:11                                     ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-06-21 15:08                                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-06-21 22:24                                         ` Juri Linkov
2020-06-22  2:27                                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-06-28  0:56                                         ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-06-28 14:28                                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-06-28 22:35                                             ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-06-29 14:50                                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-06-29 15:07                                                 ` Stephen Leake
2020-06-29 22:35                                                   ` Juri Linkov
2020-07-01 22:02                                                     ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-07-01 22:07                                                   ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-07-01 22:57                                                 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-07-04  7:15                                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-07-04 22:22                                                     ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-07-05 14:26                                                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-07-05 19:45                                                         ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-07-07 15:04                                                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-07-07 15:23                                                             ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-07-10 14:27                                                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-07-10 14:57                                                                 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-07-10 18:14                                                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-07-10 19:36                                                                     ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-07-11  6:58                                                                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-07-11 11:29                                                                         ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-07-11 12:35                                                                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-07-12  0:48                                                                             ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-07-12 14:00                                                                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-07-12 14:16                                                                                 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-07-12 14:47                                                                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-07-12 15:08                                                                                     ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-07-12 15:36                                                                                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-07-12 16:17                                                                                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-07-13  1:51                                                                                           ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-07-13  4:40                                                                                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-07-13  7:11                                                                                               ` Gregory Heytings via Emacs development discussions.
2020-07-13  7:21                                                                                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-07-13  7:52                                                                                                   ` Gregory Heytings via Emacs development discussions.
2020-07-13  8:53                                                                                                     ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2020-07-13 18:26                                                                                                       ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-07-13  7:58                                                                                                 ` tomas
2020-07-17 10:27                                                                                                   ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-07-17 15:27                                                                                                     ` tomas
2020-07-18  0:55                                                                                                       ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-07-18  9:05                                                                                                         ` tomas
2020-07-18 10:10                                                                                                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-07-18 11:58                                                                                                             ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-07-18 19:14                                                                                                           ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-07-19  2:27                                                                                                             ` Richard Stallman
2020-07-19 21:59                                                                                                               ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-07-20  2:44                                                                                                                 ` Richard Stallman
2020-07-13 19:51                                                                                               ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-07-16 16:34                                                                                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-07-16 18:55                                                                                                   ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-07-16 19:57                                                                                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-07-16 21:02                                                                                                       ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-07-17  1:07                                                                                                     ` Richard Stallman
2020-07-17  1:30                                                                                                       ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-07-16 18:56                                                                                                   ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-07-16 19:59                                                                                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-07-16 20:53                                                                                                       ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-07-13  2:51                                                                                         ` Richard Stallman
2020-07-13 10:47                                                                                           ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-07-13 13:00                                                                                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-07-13 15:24                                                                                               ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-07-13 16:30                                                                                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-07-13 19:01                                                                                                   ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-07-13 19:41                                                                                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-07-13 21:39                                                                                                       ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-07-11 12:59                                                                           ` Michael Albinus
2020-07-12 14:49                                                                             ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-07-12 17:19                                                                               ` Michael Albinus
2020-06-28 22:14                                         ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-06-29 14:32                                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-06-19 15:02                     ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-06-19 15:13                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-06-19 18:23                         ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-06-19 18:44                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-06-19 18:49                             ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-06-19 19:07                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-06-19 15:02                     ` Theodor Thornhill via Emacs development discussions.
2020-06-19 15:19                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-06-19 15:39                         ` Theodor Thornhill
2020-06-19 17:11                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-06-19 17:46                             ` Theodor Thornhill
2020-06-19 18:03                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-06-19 18:19                                 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-06-19 18:36                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-06-19 18:49                                     ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-06-19 18:22                                 ` Theodor Thornhill
2020-06-19 18:41                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-06-19 18:57                                     ` Theodor Thornhill
2020-06-19 19:10                                       ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-06-19 20:08                                         ` theo
2020-06-19 19:04                                     ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-06-19 19:12                                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-06-19 19:33                                         ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-06-20  7:20                                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-06-20 11:41                                             ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-06-20 12:36                                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-06-20 21:58                                                 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-06-19 18:21                           ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-06-19 18:30                             ` Theodor Thornhill
2020-06-19 14:07             ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-06-19 14:23               ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-06-19 14:28                 ` Eli Zaretskii
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