From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>
Cc: Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Use of "optional argument" in docstring
Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2005 22:55:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4390C2D9.9040302@student.lu.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17296.49526.166588.17581@kahikatea.snap.net.nz>
Nick Roberts wrote:
>Bill Wohler writes:
>
> > I also think the documentation often reads better if the number and the
> > word "argument" is dropped. For example, in the example above, "If BASE
> > is given..."
>
>Maybe but it would be a lot of work to change now.
>
>
To me this looks better, "is given" is enough.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-02 21:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-02 21:31 Use of "optional argument" in docstring Bill Wohler
2005-12-02 21:49 ` Nick Roberts
2005-12-02 21:55 ` Lennart Borgman [this message]
2005-12-02 22:25 ` Bill Wohler
2005-12-02 22:43 ` Nick Roberts
2005-12-03 15:58 ` Richard M. Stallman
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