From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: martin rudalics Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Honesty with parse-partial-sexp Date: Sat, 09 Dec 2006 10:47:12 +0100 Message-ID: <457A8620.9090602@gmx.at> References: <20061207185738.GA1607@muc.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: dough.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1165657873 24652 80.91.229.10 (9 Dec 2006 09:51:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2006 09:51:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Alan Mackenzie , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 09 10:51:12 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by dough.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1GsyrJ-0007Mk-Ok for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 09 Dec 2006 10:51:06 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GsyrJ-0004QD-AJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 09 Dec 2006 04:51:05 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Gsypp-0003iW-NS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Dec 2006 04:49:33 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Gsypn-0003h2-74 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Dec 2006 04:49:32 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gsypm-0003gG-II for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Dec 2006 04:49:30 -0500 Original-Received: from [213.165.64.20] (helo=mail.gmx.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.52) id 1Gsypl-0001dK-Vg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Dec 2006 04:49:30 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 09 Dec 2006 09:49:28 -0000 Original-Received: from N793P017.adsl.highway.telekom.at (EHLO [62.47.43.17]) [62.47.43.17] by mail.gmx.net (mp028) with SMTP; 09 Dec 2006 10:49:28 +0100 X-Authenticated: #14592706 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: de-DE, de, en-us, en Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:63498 Archived-At: In fact, the Elisp doc for `parse-partial-sexp' reading Element 9 is used only to set element 1 of the return value, in trivial cases where parsing starts and stops within the same pair of parentheses. should become Element 9 is used only to set elements 1 and 9 of the return value, in trivial cases where parsing starts and stops within the same pair of parentheses. and I'm in doubt whether all these cases are "trivial". Finally, if you really want to document the 9th return value you should talk about all its elements.