From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: docstrings and elisp reference Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2017 22:43:59 -0400 Message-ID: References: <0BB64F35-233A-471F-B99F-51F96C4E6CCB@gmail.com> <8360g99n07.fsf@gnu.org> <86lgp4q2xa.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <7acc7d4f-23cc-4b6a-b062-ef92805e465b@default> <878tl3rz38.fsf@x230.lts> <877f0ln3dx.fsf@x230.lts> <83fuf870zf.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1497149064 20912 195.159.176.226 (11 Jun 2017 02:44:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2017 02:44:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: e.e.f.prudhomme@gmail.com, stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org, drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 11 04:44:20 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dJsrT-0005Dc-TT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 11 Jun 2017 04:44:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60891 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dJsrZ-0003Re-4U for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 10 Jun 2017 22:44:25 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50628) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dJsrS-0003RJ-0N for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Jun 2017 22:44:18 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dJsrR-0000sU-D1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Jun 2017 22:44:18 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:42560) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dJsrA-0000fw-9g; Sat, 10 Jun 2017 22:44:00 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1dJsr9-0006ip-Ek; Sat, 10 Jun 2017 22:43:59 -0400 In-reply-to: <83fuf870zf.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Sat, 10 Jun 2017 10:31:16 +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:215569 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. ]]] > > > - 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. -- 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.