From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
To: Nicolas Richard <nrichard@ulb.ac.be>
Cc: 22192-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#22192: Doc string of macroexp-let2 is obscure.
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2015 13:14:26 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151217131426.GB2988@acm.fritz.box> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r3il45sf.fsf@ulb.ac.be>
Hello, Nicolas.
On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 01:29:36PM +0100, Nicolas Richard wrote:
> Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:
> > "Bind VAR to a copyable expression that returns the value of EXP.
> > This is like `(let ((v ,EXP)) ,EXPS) except that `v' is a new generated
> > symbol which EXPS can find in VAR.
> > TEST should be the name of a predicate on EXP checking whether the `let' can
> > be skipped; if nil, as is usual, `macroexp-const-p' is used."
> > This macro is widely used (over 50 times) in Emacs, and is not
> > documented in the Elisp manual. The doc string is difficult to
> > understand.
> I agree that the docstring was pretty obscure, but it was modified
> in commit 5e3fde03b45877d3e30f859a14c10043e637aa63
Yes, I was looking at the 24.5 version. Thanks for the reply, and sorry
for wasting your time. I will close the bug.
> It now is :
[ .... ]
That looks fine!
> --
> Nicolas
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
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2015-12-17 10:09 bug#22192: Doc string of macroexp-let2 is obscure Alan Mackenzie
2015-12-17 12:29 ` Nicolas Richard
2015-12-17 13:14 ` Alan Mackenzie [this message]
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