bug#24925: 25.1.50; Suboptimal explanation of FACESPEC in (elisp) Search-based Fontification

[Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> > From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
> > Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2016 17:20:38 +0100
> > 
> >      In this kind of element, FACESPEC is an expression whose value
> >      specifies the face to use for highlighting.  In the simplest case,
> >      FACESPEC is a Lisp variable (a symbol) whose value is a face name.
> > 
> > The first sentence is not good because an expression has no associated
> > value.
>
> ??? An expression certainly can have a value.

I really think that first sentence can be interpreted in different ways
when being read - see the rest of what I said.  Let's be more specific:
say that the expression is evaluated dynamically, and that the according
return value at that time is used. In contrast to having "a" value; like
evaluating only one time when the spec is added, or expecting the
expression to be constant.


Michael.