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From: phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk (Phillip Lord)
To: Bastien <bzg@altern.org>
Cc: Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: return of replace-match
Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2014 10:58:30 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <871tygkj3d.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878usphuqr.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> (Bastien's message of "Wed, 5 Mar 2014 10:15:08 +0100")



Bastien <bzg@altern.org> writes:

> Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> It looks correct to me.  When the docstring tells nothing about the
>> returning value, it may be anything and you shouldn't rely on it.
>
> IIUC, the problem here is that the docstring says it will return `t'
> and return `nil' instead.  I guess that's just a documentation bug.

The docstring doesn't say anything. The elisp manual says "returns `t`".

I'll send a bug report.



  reply	other threads:[~2014-03-05 10:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-03-04 14:42 return of replace-match Phillip Lord
2014-03-04 15:16 ` Michael Heerdegen
2014-03-04 15:33   ` Phillip Lord
2014-03-05  7:29 ` Alex Kost
2014-03-05  9:15   ` Bastien
2014-03-05 10:58     ` Phillip Lord [this message]
2014-03-05 11:11     ` Nicolas Richard

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