From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: herring@lanl.gov
Cc: lekktu@gmail.com,
"Lennart Borgman \(gmail\)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>,
Luc Teirlinck <teirllm@dms.auburn.edu>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Small but confusing doc error in easy-menu-define
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 08:37:22 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv6480cv0m.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48170.128.165.123.18.1176422142.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> (Davis Herring's message of "Thu\, 12 Apr 2007 16\:55\:42 -0700 \(PDT\)")
> Yes, yes it does. In this case, it means that the symbol named "symbol"
> (described, as per usual, as SYMBOL in the doc string), which is bound to
> the appropriate argument value when the function is called, has a value
> that is not nil (and, by implication of the symbol's name ("symbol"), is
> some other symbol instead).
I think it's a much better idea to distinguish variables from symbols.
SYMBOL is a variable whose value should be a symbol. Symbols have several
different fields, including a "value" field, a "function" field and
a "property-list" field.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-13 12:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-11 22:09 Small but confusing doc error in easy-menu-define Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-04-12 19:26 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-04-12 19:33 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-04-12 19:46 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-04-12 20:06 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-04-12 20:09 ` Luc Teirlinck
2007-04-12 20:19 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-04-12 21:46 ` Davis Herring
2007-04-12 22:23 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-04-12 23:55 ` Davis Herring
2007-04-13 12:37 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2007-04-12 22:03 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-04-12 22:20 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
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