From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dmitry Gutov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Docstrings and manuals Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2016 12:50:22 +0300 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> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1460973097 28180 80.91.229.3 (18 Apr 2016 09:51:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2016 09:51:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rgm@gnu.org, eliz@gnu.org, michael.albinus@gmx.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 18 11:51:32 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 1as5q7-0001Y2-GT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Apr 2016 11:51:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34218 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1as5q3-0003ht-CK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Apr 2016 05:51:27 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47060) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1as5p6-0001rY-Rh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Apr 2016 05:50:32 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1as5p3-0004Lz-MS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Apr 2016 05:50:28 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-wm0-x242.google.com ([2a00:1450:400c:c09::242]:36221) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1as5p3-0004Lv-BI; Mon, 18 Apr 2016 05:50:25 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-wm0-x242.google.com with SMTP id l6so23031192wml.3; Mon, 18 Apr 2016 02:50:25 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=sender:subject:to:references:cc:from:message-id:date:user-agent :mime-version:in-reply-to:content-transfer-encoding; bh=TM7lxJ2YzeWxKY4EI1MIvA42fDLTY0QdI6I24hyMgT4=; b=sJiw9AopcKqaJnhD2MoFzqK4KQYLe9NFcW505mXVXNBxB62Y5E68tCERzAWH8GfUr0 74ghUiARTTG7eB/HXuh/tTXA5sSMvZtYkfCjqM1KdrGAOYCu5f+y1UsT6T7nQ8OhsO4p 5DY8yyzpyGVLkIP9TnlDiYqzFwH/99rhLEd74qBHU/28mL8Ljg2yXxep+k+kuA7kCoDH d3wKg65Vadjx7C3O2zL/BVX8J8rS5FoxYPSbEvn7qWHYTDCfZneS2vXROQzhWVeWf8nE hmJ76zGrMDfgm8CyLtXpUw/B6IH9cLhELQRPGPIVQyWJ7qAFFan9YA8QFVfEL6m7ard3 uVEw== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:sender:subject:to:references:cc:from:message-id :date:user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-transfer-encoding; bh=TM7lxJ2YzeWxKY4EI1MIvA42fDLTY0QdI6I24hyMgT4=; b=Z6jEArXn2U6ovL4o+50r4O3dp3W9gAnDvjP0/A8uo/ucCeDBBzgTOaRGHSTd20OFtn 5uovZZJrjF0NGUqPMFoIh53aGT//ySScf8eXKjuokxuDlMDllk6SYSxL56gqtkVfpOCC 0LNRKwkvS+PJ5rVQhIsorAyjLKV43i7W5gS6TI9v31xKZJXNYsY32GJO/ypyKcmvuQl/ O1x1uEmau6rTa0CrKTejXqmkGWfpOm04TWxo6uJbHfPeKlj/N3VzfZ3k5a9dXmXEfOSx bCYsY4iNTlYCNOpKAieBiKV6DW4aI3tmdMYos/asNp7E2ds2pVVmseCzRe/oaYg6rwOw Wjqw== X-Gm-Message-State: AOPr4FX57gC4S4wzJMhVzAY+XcjDxy/8WKuV8mKH8hj5Dp8MRv1jaloU7u8ifo/TFowIBw== X-Received: by 10.28.57.214 with SMTP id g205mr18170815wma.24.1460973024564; Mon, 18 Apr 2016 02:50:24 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.2] ([185.105.175.24]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id ll9sm63264640wjc.29.2016.04.18.02.50.22 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 18 Apr 2016 02:50:23 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.0 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2a00:1450:400c:c09::242 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:203035 Archived-At: On 04/18/2016 11:38 AM, Richard Stallman wrote: > That's not necessarily a flaw. The fact that mapatoms returns nil is > not very important for using it. Maybe it is worth mentioning in the > manual but not important enough for the doc string. How come it can be more important to mention in the manual? Returning nil is either a part of the function's contract, or not.