From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: 12270@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#12270: 24.1.50; (elisp) Syntax Descriptors: "second character, if present"
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 08:45:17 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <326318AAC3364E9BA18F16D23A753C36@us.oracle.com> (raw)
This text does not seem correct to me. At least it seems unclear.
"The first character in a syntax descriptor must be a syntax class
designator character. The second character, if present, specifies a
matching character (e.g. in Lisp, the matching character for `(' is
`)'); a space specifies that there is no matching character."
How can the second char be absent if the third char is present? It is
wrong to speak of a char being "present" here, AFAICT. What should be
said instead of "present" is non-space:
"The second character, if not a space, specifies..."
In GNU Emacs 24.1.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
of 2012-08-13 on MARVIN
Bzr revision: 109584 monnier@iro.umontreal.ca-20120813141247-76irjqslrfncn30u
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
Configured using:
`configure --with-gcc (4.6) --no-opt --enable-checking --cflags
-ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libXpm-3.5.8/include
-ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libXpm-3.5.8/src
-ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libpng-dev_1.4.3-1/include
-ID:/devel/emacs/libs/zlib-dev_1.2.5-2/include
-ID:/devel/emacs/libs/giflib-4.1.4-1/include
-ID:/devel/emacs/libs/jpeg-6b-4/include
-ID:/devel/emacs/libs/tiff-3.8.2-1/include
-ID:/devel/emacs/libs/gnutls-3.0.9/include
-ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libiconv-1.13.1-1-dev/include
-ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libxml2-2.7.8/include/libxml2'
next reply other threads:[~2012-08-24 15:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-24 15:45 Drew Adams [this message]
2012-08-24 22:34 ` bug#12270: 24.1.50; (elisp) Syntax Descriptors: "second character, if present" Andreas Schwab
2012-08-24 23:14 ` Drew Adams
2012-08-25 6:28 ` Andreas Schwab
2012-08-25 15:05 ` Drew Adams
2012-08-25 21:26 ` Andreas Schwab
2012-08-26 0:24 ` Drew Adams
2012-08-26 7:00 ` Andreas Schwab
2012-08-26 13:30 ` Drew Adams
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