From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>,
Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: make-vector documentation is wrong
Date: Thu, 14 May 2020 23:34:12 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <152fab46-8825-2e69-6c74-5309482ac1ba@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv8shtna1j.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
On 5/14/20 8:41 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> I can't see any strong argument either for making sure (vector) returns
> a fresh object nor for enforcing that it always returns the same object,
> so I'd favor a documentation that says both things are valid
Other parts of the documentation already refer to "the empty vector" and "the
empty string", implying that there is only one of each. Should they be rephrased
too? This would require quite a bit of rewording.
Emacs currently has exactly two empty strings (one unibyte and one multibyte),
so the phrase "the empty string" is wrong for the current implementation anyway.
It is a bit of a mess....
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-15 6:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-15 1:36 make-vector documentation is wrong Daniel Colascione
2020-05-15 2:46 ` Paul Eggert
2020-05-15 2:59 ` Daniel Colascione
2020-05-15 3:19 ` Paul Eggert
2020-05-15 3:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-15 6:34 ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2020-05-15 9:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-15 6:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
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