From: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
To: Joost Kremers <joostkremers@fastmail.fm>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Is this a bug in while-let or do I missunderstand it?
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2024 13:32:48 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bjya1ncv.fsf@melete.silentflame.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86o72i5ip1.fsf@fastmail.fm> (Joost Kremers's message of "Thu, 14 Nov 2024 09:21:46 +0100")
Hello Joost,
Have you been able to prepare an updated patch?
Thanks.
On Thu 14 Nov 2024 at 09:21am +01, Joost Kremers wrote:
>> The disadvantage of what you did is that you need to say repeatedly
>>
>> @var{varlist} has the same form as in @code{if-let*}.
>>
>> and the reader has to go back, read the description of if-let* (which
>> she might not want to know anything about), and decide which parts of
>> that description are relevant to whatever macro she is interested in.
>
> Okay, so I'll put the explanation of VARLIST into the description of every
> macro.
>
>>> +Each element of @code{varlist} has the form @code{(@var{symbol}
>>> +@var{value-form})}:
>>
>> This form is better put in @w{..}, to prevent it being split between
>> lines.
>
> Ok.
--
Sean Whitton
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-11-20 5:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 64+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-11-08 16:25 Is this a bug in while-let or do I missunderstand it? arthur miller
2024-11-08 19:23 ` Philip Kaludercic
2024-11-09 3:30 ` Sv: " arthur miller
2024-11-09 9:29 ` Yuri Khan
2024-11-09 13:03 ` Sv: " arthur miller
2024-11-09 13:15 ` Yuri Khan
2024-11-09 13:38 ` Sv: " arthur miller
2024-11-09 13:41 ` Yuri Khan
2024-11-09 13:47 ` Sv: " arthur miller
2024-11-09 14:04 ` Yuri Khan
2024-11-09 14:44 ` Sv: " arthur miller
2024-11-09 16:33 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2024-11-09 16:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-11-09 16:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-11-09 17:33 ` Andreas Schwab
2024-11-09 18:07 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2024-11-09 18:18 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2024-11-09 20:02 ` Jens Schmidt
2024-11-09 20:38 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2024-11-09 21:18 ` Joost Kremers
2024-11-10 11:44 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2024-11-10 12:24 ` Better documentation for non-binding clauses of if-let and friends Jens Schmidt
2024-11-10 14:51 ` Sean Whitton
2024-11-10 16:58 ` Jens Schmidt
2024-11-11 10:03 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2024-11-11 8:20 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2024-11-09 19:32 ` Sv: [External] : Re: Is this a bug in while-let or do I missunderstand it? arthur miller
2024-11-09 22:36 ` Drew Adams
2024-11-09 22:53 ` Drew Adams
2024-11-14 21:50 ` John ff
2024-11-09 20:29 ` Sv: " arthur miller
2024-11-10 6:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-11-10 10:40 ` Joost Kremers
2024-11-10 12:10 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2024-11-10 19:49 ` Sv: " arthur miller
2024-11-10 18:18 ` arthur miller
2024-11-11 5:13 ` Yuri Khan
2024-11-11 8:49 ` Sv: " arthur miller
2024-11-11 12:23 ` tomas
2024-11-11 22:41 ` Joost Kremers
2024-11-12 12:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-11-12 12:45 ` Joost Kremers
2024-11-12 14:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-11-12 15:32 ` Joost Kremers
2024-11-12 23:45 ` Joost Kremers
2024-11-13 9:45 ` Sean Whitton
2024-11-13 9:56 ` Sean Whitton
2024-11-13 11:00 ` Joost Kremers
2024-11-13 12:17 ` Sean Whitton
2024-11-14 7:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-11-14 8:21 ` Joost Kremers
2024-11-20 5:32 ` Sean Whitton [this message]
2024-11-24 10:49 ` Joost Kremers
2024-11-25 4:45 ` Sean Whitton
2024-11-25 8:18 ` Joost Kremers
2024-11-14 21:51 ` John ff
2024-11-14 21:52 ` John ff
2024-11-09 21:47 ` Sv: " Joost Kremers
2024-11-09 22:07 ` Sv: " arthur miller
2024-11-10 6:07 ` Andreas Schwab
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2024-11-12 3:36 arthur miller
2024-11-12 8:30 ` Joost Kremers
2024-11-12 17:55 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2024-11-12 3:41 arthur miller
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