From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: setq-default docstring fix Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 16:20:38 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <87brl4w0tr.fsf@orebokech.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1083790015 22240 80.91.224.253 (5 May 2004 20:46:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 20:46:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Wed May 05 22:46:47 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BLTHy-0001aT-00 for ; Wed, 05 May 2004 22:46:46 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BLTHy-0003nl-00 for ; Wed, 05 May 2004 22:46:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BLTGf-0003xW-QC for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Wed, 05 May 2004 16:45:25 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BLSyD-0004DA-Ua for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 May 2004 16:26:22 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BLSsh-0001rz-EH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 May 2004 16:21:10 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BLSsg-0001rV-LX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 May 2004 16:20:38 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.24) id 1BLSsg-0004xE-16; Wed, 05 May 2004 16:20:38 -0400 Original-To: Romain Francoise In-reply-to: <87brl4w0tr.fsf@orebokech.com> (message from Romain Francoise on Tue, 04 May 2004 19:37:20 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:22812 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:22812 The docstring for setq-default mentions an argument named VAR, but it is really named SYMBOL. How did do you reach the conclusion that SYMBOL is its real name? As far as I can see, the doc string calls in VAR part of the time and SYMBOL part of the time, which you could think of as an inconsistency, but was not a real inconsistency the way it was done. But it would lose nothing to change it to say VAR uniformly.