From: "Štěpán Němec" <stepnem@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 6591@debbugs.gnu.org, rms@gnu.org
Subject: bug#6591: 24.0.50; incorrect doc for `catch'
Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2010 12:59:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8739vq9td1.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83lj9iv0dg.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sun, 11 Jul 2010 12:22:35 +0300")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: =?utf-8?B?xaB0xJtww6FuIE7Em21lYw==?= <stepnem@gmail.com>
>> Cc: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>, 6591@debbugs.gnu.org, Richard
> Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
>> Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2010 10:14:47 +0200
>>
>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>>
>> > Using FORM... is okay, but will need more extensive changes, so I'd
>> > rather not do it. I'd like to simply remove the dots after BODY, and
>> > explain in the text that BODY can consist of one or more forms.
>> >
>> > Does anyone see any reason why keeping the dots in BODY... will have
>> > some didactical importance? Richard? Stefan? Yidong?
>>
>> Well, just look at `when' -- ISTM it has the very same "problem" as
>> discussed here. And it's probably not the only one/two.
>
> Sorry, I don't get your point. Sure, there are places in the manual
> that use "FORM...", but that doesn't necessarily mean it's the only
> possible way of describing that. "BODY..." is used in quite a few
> places as well, and I was only talking about those.
You were asking about BODY...
`when' uses BODY..., and IMO in `when' `BODY...' means the very same
thing as in `catch' (i.e., "any number of forms"), which you're now
apparently about to change.
Štěpán
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Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-09 15:52 bug#6591: 24.0.50; incorrect doc for `catch' Drew Adams
2010-07-09 17:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-09 19:36 ` Drew Adams
2010-07-10 7:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-10 14:14 ` Drew Adams
2010-07-10 14:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-10 15:44 ` Drew Adams
2010-07-10 15:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-11 4:21 ` Drew Adams
2010-07-11 6:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-11 8:14 ` Štěpán Němec
2010-07-11 9:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-11 10:59 ` Štěpán Němec [this message]
2010-07-11 13:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-11 13:44 ` Štěpán Němec
2010-07-11 14:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-11 15:26 ` Andreas Schwab
2010-07-11 15:33 ` Drew Adams
2010-07-11 17:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.11.1278862210.6344.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-07-11 22:36 ` Tim X
[not found] ` <mailman.2.1278856813.6344.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-07-11 22:34 ` Tim X
2010-12-08 15:52 ` Drew Adams
2010-12-20 12:25 ` Chong Yidong
2010-07-11 15:33 ` Drew Adams
2010-07-11 17:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-11 16:33 ` Chong Yidong
2010-07-11 16:52 ` Drew Adams
2010-07-11 17:13 ` Chong Yidong
2010-07-11 17:58 ` Drew Adams
2010-07-11 18:14 ` Andreas Schwab
2010-07-11 19:10 ` Drew Adams
2010-07-11 19:40 ` Andreas Schwab
2010-07-11 20:07 ` Drew Adams
2010-07-11 21:22 ` Andreas Schwab
2010-07-11 21:42 ` Chong Yidong
2010-07-11 21:44 ` Drew Adams
2010-07-12 8:43 ` Andreas Schwab
2010-07-12 14:56 ` Drew Adams
2010-07-12 15:26 ` Andreas Schwab
2010-07-12 16:01 ` Drew Adams
2010-07-12 16:11 ` Andreas Schwab
2010-07-12 16:31 ` Drew Adams
2010-07-12 16:36 ` Andreas Schwab
2010-07-12 16:50 ` Drew Adams
2010-07-12 18:14 ` Andreas Schwab
2010-07-12 18:35 ` Drew Adams
2010-07-12 18:41 ` Andreas Schwab
2010-07-12 18:49 ` Drew Adams
2010-07-12 17:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-12 18:30 ` Drew Adams
2010-07-10 5:44 ` MON KEY
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