From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: Dieter Wilhelm <dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: typo in accept-process-output (process.c)
Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2007 16:01:16 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <w0tzrd3g4z.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <85643u8955.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (David Kastrup's message of "Sun, 05 Aug 2007 14:21:10 +0200")
David Kastrup wrote:
>> -Return non-nil iff we received any output before the timeout expired. */)
>> +Return non-nil if we received any output before the timeout expired. */)
>> (process, seconds, millisec, just_this_one)
>> register Lisp_Object process, seconds, millisec, just_this_one;
>
> That is not a typo.
It is, however, a deprecated usage that consistently confuses people,
exactly as it has done here.
This motivates me to tackle the TODO item to get rid of the "iff"s.
So the job only has to be done once, what replacement will people be
happy with? Personally, I think plain "if" would be just fine, except
perhaps to the tediously literal-minded. Failing that, "only if".
As a last resort, "if and only if" (yuck).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-05 20:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-05 12:04 typo in accept-process-output (process.c) Dieter Wilhelm
2007-08-05 12:21 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-05 20:01 ` Glenn Morris [this message]
2007-08-05 22:54 ` Dieter Wilhelm
2007-08-06 0:06 ` Nick Roberts
2007-08-06 6:41 ` Dieter Wilhelm
2007-08-06 14:19 ` Richard Stallman
2007-08-06 20:50 ` Michael Olson
2007-08-07 11:02 ` Stephen Berman
2007-08-07 11:18 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-07 11:31 ` Jason Rumney
2007-08-07 16:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-08-07 17:33 ` Drew Adams
2007-08-07 22:01 ` Dieter Wilhelm
2007-08-07 22:17 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-08-07 23:16 ` Drew Adams
2007-08-08 0:06 ` Jason Rumney
2007-08-08 0:21 ` Drew Adams
2007-08-09 0:07 ` Richard Stallman
2007-08-08 3:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-08-08 5:50 ` Dieter Wilhelm
2007-08-08 18:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-08-08 20:14 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-08 20:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-08-08 20:27 ` martin rudalics
2007-08-08 20:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-08-12 20:33 ` Christian Schlauer
2007-08-12 22:01 ` Stephen Berman
2007-08-13 5:00 ` Richard Stallman
2007-08-05 20:54 ` Richard Stallman
2007-08-08 7:54 ` Glenn Morris
2007-08-09 0:07 ` Richard Stallman
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