From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: 56974@debbugs.gnu.org, Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>,
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Subject: bug#56974: 29.0.50; Missing documentation for former subr-x macros
Date: Sat, 06 Aug 2022 03:45:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871qtuno0u.fsf@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871qtuc30u.fsf@gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Fri, 05 Aug 2022 14:01:53 +0200")
Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> > +For the sake of backwards compatibility, it is possible to write a
> > +single binding without a binding list:
>
> I'm not sure we need to document this bit.
I don't think we should.
> > +@defmac if-let* (bindings@dots) then &rest else
> > +@code{if-let*} is mostly equivalent to @code{if-let}, with the
> > +exception that the legacy @code{(if (@var{var} (test)) foo bar)}
> > +syntax is not permitted.
> > +@end defmac
>
> So I think it's sufficient to document only the *-less variant.
Ehm - isn't the *-less form the old one we intended to obsolete (because
of it's backwards-compatibility hack), and the *-variant the one we
actually want to advertise?
Michael.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-08-06 1:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-08-04 13:06 bug#56974: 29.0.50; Missing documentation for former subr-x macros Philip Kaludercic
2022-08-04 13:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-08-05 9:19 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-08-05 12:01 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-08-06 1:45 ` Michael Heerdegen [this message]
2022-08-06 12:19 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-08-07 2:15 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-08-07 12:51 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-08-09 9:10 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-08-05 13:50 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
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