From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Docstrings and manuals Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2016 19:51:41 -0400 Message-ID: References: <6ok2vyzwf9.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <08f70cda-44be-0657-e50a-2b2c80d2c21c@yandex.ru> <87oa9dzgl0.fsf@gmx.de> <87potshczh.fsf@gmx.de> <87h9f4ghzg.fsf@gmx.de> <8737qnc8ep.fsf@gmx.de> <87k2jwd3gr.fsf_-_@gmx.de> <8dfdfe5d-41fe-7c05-0054-0bd3e589390e@yandex.ru> <831t64b7l0.fsf@gnu.org> <3c95a1a7-a334-73e7-0644-71aa0d862b50@yandex.ru> <9ba2fbfe-9334-a07f-4b63-2e48d381c5f3@yandex.ru> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1461109943 1278 80.91.229.3 (19 Apr 2016 23:52:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2016 23:52:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rgm@gnu.org, eliz@gnu.org, michael.albinus@gmx.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dmitry Gutov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 20 01:52:10 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1asfRA-0005gL-EN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Apr 2016 01:52:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38457 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1asfRA-0000Xy-1H for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Apr 2016 19:52:08 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57291) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1asfQr-0000Vh-A5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Apr 2016 19:51:50 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1asfQq-00037n-Ez for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Apr 2016 19:51:49 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:57945) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1asfQk-000369-Us; Tue, 19 Apr 2016 19:51:42 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1asfQj-0001eC-Sp; Tue, 19 Apr 2016 19:51:41 -0400 In-reply-to: <9ba2fbfe-9334-a07f-4b63-2e48d381c5f3@yandex.ru> (message from Dmitry Gutov on Tue, 19 Apr 2016 10:59:56 +0300) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:203108 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > That sounds silly to me. At the very least, not mentioning a behavior in > the docstring makes it easier to violate. I don't know what you mean by "violate" in this specific context (that mapatoms returns nil). -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.