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Subject: Re: Poor quality documentation in edebug.el, and recursive
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> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>,  cpitclaudel@gmail.com,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 09 May 2020 09:47:03 -0400
> 
> > Once again: "Return value" doesn't sound right to me, since it implies
> > read-only access to the value, something that AFAIU is inaccurate.  It
> > actually returns a settable "place", doesn't it?
> 
> AFAIK the official name for that in OO parlance is an "accessor".
> Which is why I used the verb "Access".

That's okay, but the patch in question proposes to replace "Access"
with "Return value of", and I think this will make the documentation
less accurate than the original.  Or am I missing something?