From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
To: 29367@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#29367: 27.0.50; State and doc of `inline'
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2017 20:10:13 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mv3gvka2.fsf@web.de> (raw)
C-h f inline gives you
| inline is an alias for `progn'.
|
| (inline BODY...)
|
| Eval BODY forms sequentially and return value of last one.
`inline' is quite widely used in the Emacs sources - in Gnus, for
example. But obviously not because it is such a handy alias for
`progn'. The byte compiler treats it very specially.
I think it is obvious that `inline' needs a real documentation, and
should not be defined as an alias, because this is very confusing.
If `inline' should not be used in new code because it is obsoleted by
better alternatives (inline.el, maybe? I don't know), we can declare it
obsolete. Still, as long as it is used in Emacs a lot, and developers
need to work with this code base, they need to know what `inline' is.
TIA,
Michael.
In GNU Emacs 27.0.50 (build 5, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.22.24)
of 2017-11-18 built on drachen
Repository revision: 4da48312a230909a12d63987f865f25d45760773
Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11905000
System Description: Debian GNU/Linux testing (buster)
next reply other threads:[~2017-11-20 19:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-20 19:10 Michael Heerdegen [this message]
2017-11-20 21:40 ` bug#29367: 27.0.50; State and doc of `inline' Glenn Morris
2017-11-20 22:04 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-11-20 22:12 ` Michael Heerdegen
2017-11-21 16:11 ` Richard Stallman
2017-11-21 16:19 ` Drew Adams
2017-11-21 16:22 ` Andreas Schwab
2017-11-21 16:42 ` Michael Heerdegen
2017-11-21 17:11 ` Drew Adams
2017-11-21 17:27 ` Michael Heerdegen
2017-11-21 18:10 ` Andreas Schwab
2017-11-21 16:58 ` Glenn Morris
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