From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
To: jidanni@jidanni.org
Cc: 9259@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#9259: extra line in "unless" docstring?
Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2011 17:48:32 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vctru53j.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bow0vbnh.fsf@jidanni.org> (jidanni@jidanni.org's message of "Mon, 08 Aug 2011 11:13:06 +0800")
jidanni@jidanni.org writes:
> unless is a Lisp macro in `subr.el'.
>
> (unless COND BODY...)
>
> If COND yields nil, do BODY, else return nil. <--------what is this
> line doing here?
> When COND yields nil, eval BODY forms sequentially and return
> value of last one, or nil if there are none.
It's the one-line summary of the function. Every docstring has one.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-20 21:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-08 3:13 bug#9259: extra line in "unless" docstring? jidanni
2011-08-08 13:51 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-08-20 21:48 ` Chong Yidong [this message]
2011-08-20 22:15 ` jidanni
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