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From: Chong Yidong <cyd@gnu.org>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 9711@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#9711: 24.0.50; doc string of defcustom
Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:48:21 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87aa4w2kmi.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <467568DE194849A4948BCCD8B689BC02@us.oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Sun, 9 Oct 2011 13:01:35 -0700")

"Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:

> "The remaining arguments should have the form
>  
>    [KEYWORD VALUE]..."
>  
> After that, the keywords are described, with VALUE presumably being
> different for each one.  That's OK, but we should not be using the same
> name, "VALUE" for the argument in the arglist.

Fixed, thanks.

> In addition, this seems wrong:
>
> "Neither SYMBOL nor VALUE need to be quoted."
>
> Huh?  VALUE is evaluated.  What is meant by this statement?

That argument is evaluated, but it is also used as an expression.  I
edited the docstring to make this clearer.





      parent reply	other threads:[~2012-02-06 12:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-09 20:01 bug#9711: 24.0.50; doc string of defcustom Drew Adams
2011-10-09 20:16 ` Drew Adams
2012-02-06 12:48 ` Chong Yidong [this message]

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