From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: e.e.f.prudhomme@gmail.com, stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org,
drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: docstrings and elisp reference
Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2017 22:43:59 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1dJsr9-0006ip-Ek@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83fuf870zf.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Sat, 10 Jun 2017 10:31:16 +0300)
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> > > - the type of the function return value
> >
> > That is not crucial in Lisp the way it is in Java.
> > Unlike Java, Lisp does not declare or limit the type of any values.
> It could be important for Texinfo in general,
I was responding to a proposed feature for Lisp doc strings (imitating
Javadoc). Texinfo is a different issue.
Texinfo already has a standard way to indicate the return type of a
function, used in the C Library manual.
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Thread overview: 72+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-06-05 21:26 docstrings and elisp reference Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-06-06 0:09 ` Tino Calancha
2017-06-06 5:10 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-06-06 15:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-06 20:25 ` Stephen Leake
2017-06-06 20:36 ` Drew Adams
2017-06-08 2:29 ` Etienne Prud’homme
2017-06-08 3:48 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-06-08 5:39 ` Chad Brown
2017-06-08 8:12 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-06-08 15:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-08 15:42 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-06-09 0:25 ` Chad Brown
2017-06-08 18:29 ` Etienne Prud’homme
2017-06-09 4:10 ` Richard Stallman
2017-06-08 15:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-08 18:10 ` Etienne Prud’homme
2017-06-08 19:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-08 20:07 ` Drew Adams
2017-06-08 20:22 ` Etienne Prud’homme
2017-06-08 22:44 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-06-09 4:10 ` Richard Stallman
2017-06-09 5:20 ` Etienne Prud’homme
2017-06-09 7:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-09 8:27 ` Yuri Khan
2017-06-09 9:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-09 12:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-09 12:32 ` Yuri Khan
2017-06-09 13:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-09 19:24 ` Etienne Prud’homme
2017-06-10 1:06 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-06-10 11:36 ` Nikolay Kudryavtsev
2017-06-10 14:26 ` Drew Adams
2017-06-10 3:19 ` Richard Stallman
2017-06-10 7:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-11 2:43 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2017-06-11 2:44 ` Richard Stallman
2017-06-11 15:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-06-12 2:52 ` Richard Stallman
2017-06-12 3:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-06-13 3:25 ` Richard Stallman
2017-06-10 8:22 ` Yuri Khan
2017-06-10 3:19 ` Richard Stallman
2017-06-06 20:45 ` Joost Kremers
2017-06-07 13:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-06-07 13:23 ` Yuri Khan
2017-06-07 13:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-06-07 14:18 ` Drew Adams
2017-06-07 15:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-06 20:47 ` Dmitry Gutov
2017-06-06 21:21 ` Drew Adams
2017-06-06 21:50 ` Dmitry Gutov
2017-06-07 5:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-17 12:46 ` Dmitry Gutov
2017-06-17 13:04 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-06-17 13:55 ` Dmitry Gutov
2017-06-17 20:14 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-06-18 2:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-18 19:52 ` Richard Stallman
2017-06-17 22:13 ` Richard Stallman
2017-06-20 18:05 ` John Wiegley
2017-06-17 14:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-17 15:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-06-17 18:59 ` Paul Eggert
2017-06-17 14:52 ` Drew Adams
2017-06-19 18:31 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2017-06-07 14:05 ` Drew Adams
2017-06-07 14:27 ` Drew Adams
2017-06-08 1:27 ` Richard Stallman
2017-06-06 22:42 ` Richard Stallman
2017-06-06 22:49 ` Dmitry Gutov
2017-06-07 5:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
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