From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.com>,
"help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [External] : Supplying DOC string in a `defun' using `defvar'
Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2021 14:35:53 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvbl8oazeh.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CO1PR10MB446676A5E538EBDC44B6D766F33D9@CO1PR10MB4466.namprd10.prod.outlook.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Wed, 2 Jun 2021 15:53:31 +0000")
Drew Adams [2021-06-02 15:53:31] wrote:
>> > From my point of view, the docstring should have
>> > nothing to do with either dynamic or lexical binding.
>> No, but
> I guess (hope) that your "No, but" really means "Yes,
> but", and that you agree that it _should_ indeed have
> nothing to do with dynamic or lexical binding.
>> it's a new language feature, so it makes sense that
>> you need to use the new dialect for it be available.
> I don't see how that makes sense at all. It doesn't
> follow logically that every "new language feature"
> must work _only_ with the lexical binding dialect
> turned ON.
Indeed it doesn't mean it would be bad to support
(:documentation <foo>) in the dynbound case. But it's argument for not
bothering to do so.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-06-02 18:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 83+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-05-31 23:00 Supplying DOC string in a `defun' using `defvar' ludvig-faddeev
2021-05-31 23:11 ` 2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE
2021-05-31 23:13 ` Jean Louis
2021-05-31 23:32 ` ludvig-faddeev
2021-05-31 23:43 ` Jean Louis
2021-06-01 0:14 ` 2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE
2021-06-01 0:23 ` Jean Louis
2021-06-01 0:35 ` Jean Louis
2021-06-01 0:40 ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-06-01 1:00 ` ludvig-faddeev
2021-06-01 1:07 ` Jean Louis
2021-06-01 1:28 ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-06-01 1:33 ` Jean Louis
2021-06-01 13:39 ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-06-01 16:31 ` Jean Louis
2021-06-01 22:44 ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-06-01 3:26 ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-06-01 5:19 ` Christopher Dimech
2021-06-01 14:31 ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-06-01 14:41 ` Christopher Dimech
2021-06-01 15:01 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-06-01 15:05 ` Christopher Dimech
2021-06-01 15:38 ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-06-01 18:20 ` Christopher Dimech
2021-06-01 18:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-01 18:33 ` Christopher Dimech
2021-06-02 2:53 ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-06-02 22:46 ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-06-02 22:56 ` Christopher Dimech
2021-06-03 6:52 ` Jean Louis
2021-06-03 7:23 ` Eduardo Ochs
2021-06-03 9:19 ` Jean Louis
2021-06-03 14:17 ` Eduardo Ochs
2021-06-02 15:59 ` FW: " Drew Adams
2021-06-02 16:19 ` Christopher Dimech
2021-06-02 17:24 ` Drew Adams
2021-06-02 18:14 ` Christopher Dimech
2021-06-01 22:39 ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-06-01 22:43 ` Christopher Dimech
2021-06-02 2:55 ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-06-02 4:55 ` Christopher Dimech
2021-06-02 5:06 ` Jean Louis
2021-06-02 13:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-06-02 13:35 ` Christopher Dimech
2021-06-02 14:43 ` Christopher Dimech
2021-06-02 15:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-06-02 16:14 ` Christopher Dimech
2021-06-02 15:53 ` Drew Adams
2021-06-02 18:35 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2021-06-02 18:59 ` Jean Louis
2021-06-02 19:55 ` Drew Adams
2021-06-02 19:58 ` Drew Adams
2021-06-02 21:26 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-06-02 22:24 ` Drew Adams
2021-06-02 22:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-06-02 22:52 ` Christopher Dimech
2021-06-02 23:11 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-06-03 10:57 ` Christopher Dimech
2021-06-03 13:43 ` Christopher Dimech
2021-06-03 15:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-06-03 15:34 ` Christopher Dimech
2021-06-03 15:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-06-03 16:18 ` Christopher Dimech
2021-06-03 6:29 ` Jean Louis
2021-06-03 6:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-03 6:59 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-06-01 15:46 ` Drew Adams
2021-06-01 16:34 ` Jean Louis
2021-06-01 18:51 ` Nick Dokos
2021-06-01 19:02 ` Christopher Dimech
2021-06-01 22:15 ` Robert Thorpe
2021-06-01 23:08 ` Christopher Dimech
2021-05-31 23:20 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-05-31 23:31 ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-05-31 23:46 ` ludvig-faddeev
2021-06-01 0:29 ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-06-01 0:35 ` ludvig-faddeev
2021-06-01 1:08 ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-06-01 1:49 ` ludvig-faddeev
2021-06-01 14:26 ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-06-01 21:50 ` ludvig-faddeev
2021-06-01 22:22 ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-05-31 23:40 ` Jean Louis
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