From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Poor quality documentation in edebug.el, and recursive documentation. Date: Sat, 09 May 2020 08:53:14 +0300 Message-ID: <83o8qxhcxh.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20200505202048.GA15482@ACM> <6674ab3a-9107-d59f-5758-2fd5961cfbcc@gmail.com> <20200506170134.GB5741@ACM> <20200508195908.GC6705@ACM> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="75761"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: cpitclaudel@gmail.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Alan Mackenzie Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat May 09 07:53:55 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jXIQt-000JdV-DJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 09 May 2020 07:53:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52796 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jXIQr-00073k-Vs for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 09 May 2020 01:53:54 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:47502) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jXIQQ-0006Bz-2n for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 09 May 2020 01:53:26 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:45805) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jXIQP-0003MH-83; Sat, 09 May 2020 01:53:25 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2322 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jXIQO-0002Yt-Nw; Sat, 09 May 2020 01:53:25 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20200508195908.GC6705@ACM> (message from Alan Mackenzie on Fri, 8 May 2020 19:59:08 +0000) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:249356 Archived-At: > Date: Fri, 8 May 2020 19:59:08 +0000 > From: Alan Mackenzie > Cc: Clément Pit-Claudel , > emacs-devel@gnu.org > > > Any objection to the patch below? > > Quite the opposite. :-) Please commit it. 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?