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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



  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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