From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 29328@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#29328: 24.5; doc string of `transpose-subr`
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2017 07:02:22 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <93f79e75-eac2-406c-b483-5bf60020a7e4@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83shddggqe.fsf@gnu.org>
> > The doc string should describe each parameter. Parameter SPECIAL is
> > not described, and its name is not specific or enlightening.
>
> I don't see how it can be meaningfully documented.
That's tantamount to saying that the parameter has no meaning,
no behavior. If it does something then that something should
be describable, in some way, at least. The place to start is
with the intention - why do we have such a parameter? What
does it let you do? Why/when would code ever make use of it?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-11-17 15:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-16 22:41 bug#29328: 24.5; doc string of `transpose-subr` Drew Adams
2017-11-17 13:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-17 14:25 ` Robert Pluim
2017-11-17 14:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-17 15:02 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2017-11-17 15:23 ` Noam Postavsky
2017-11-17 15:36 ` Drew Adams
2017-11-17 15:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-17 15:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
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