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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: rphodges@gmail.com, 67185-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#67185: Small bug in the Introduction to Elisp manual
Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2023 12:16:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <834jhikpzm.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1r4Yfr-0006gM-O5@fencepost.gnu.org> (message from Richard Stallman on Sat, 18 Nov 2023 22:40:43 -0500)

> From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
> Cc: rphodges@gmail.com, 67185@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2023 22:40:43 -0500
> 
>   > That manual uses "converse" and "conversely" about half a dozen times:
>   > are all of them incorrect, and actually mean "opposite" or maybe "by
>   > contrast"?
> 
> I checked these, and I think they are correct.  Each one is about reversing
> the direction of some relation, and "converse" means that/
> 
>     > The @code{kill-region} function definition also has an @code{unless}
>     > macro; it is the converse of @code{when}.
> 
> That should say "opposite".  It's opposite because in the situation
> where `when' runs its body, `unless' does not run its body.
> 
>                                                  The @code{unless} macro is
>     > an @code{if} without a then clause
> 
> The point is valid if understood in a figurative sense -- so the
> words need to indicate it is meant figuratively, not literally.  How
> to do that?  Maybe this:
> 
>                                                  The @code{unless} macro is
>      like an @code{if} except that it has no then-clause, and it supplies
>      an implicit @code{nil} for that.

Thanks, I fixed these two places as you suggested, and I'm therefore
closing this bug.





  reply	other threads:[~2023-11-19 10:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-11-14 23:14 bug#67185: Small bug in the Introduction to Elisp manual Ryan Hodges
2023-11-15 12:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]   ` <CABPno9+==Vp-x851SLp6m7E8-e2kr7DAxkzaYC2HF7VjAk2QjQ@mail.gmail.com>
2023-11-15 19:32     ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-15 20:18       ` Ryan Hodges
2023-11-17  3:56         ` Richard Stallman
2023-11-17  7:19           ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-17 13:22             ` Ryan Hodges
2023-11-19  3:40             ` Richard Stallman
2023-11-19 10:16               ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2023-11-19 19:01                 ` Ryan Hodges
2023-11-21  2:42                   ` Richard Stallman

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