From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: larsi@gnus.org, andrewjmoreton@gmail.com, 27229@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#27229: eldoc wrong highlighting for "when"
Date: Wed, 04 May 2022 18:47:48 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1nmNme-0006pa-5I@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83r15a514r.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Tue, 03 May 2022 14:03:32 +0300)
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> > > So now "C-h f when" says
> > >
> > > (when COND &rest BODY)
> > >
> > > where it previously said
> > >
> > > (when COND BODY...)
> > >
> > > Isn't this a regression?
> >
> > In what way? We have &rest BODY all over the place, and it's the
> > correct syntax to specify that there's a body, so I don't understand
> > what you mean.
> But when and unless aren't functions, they are "special forms". So
> using &rest there is less self-explanatory for those who aren't
> necessarily privy to the internals.
That is right. The keywords &rest and &optional are for arguments,
and they imply that the values are evaluated in the usual way.
A special form is a syntactic construct, not a function call.
Its parts are not arguments to a function.
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Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-06-04 10:18 bug#27229: eldoc wrong highlighting for "when" Charles A. Roelli
2017-06-04 15:58 ` Andreas Politz
2020-08-16 10:16 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-10-03 23:49 ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-09-03 8:31 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-03 14:20 ` Andy Moreton
2021-09-03 14:37 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-03 17:09 ` Andy Moreton
2021-09-04 6:36 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-04 13:23 ` Andy Moreton
2021-09-04 13:45 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-02 10:30 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-02 16:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-03 9:05 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-03 11:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-03 11:09 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-03 11:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-03 11:24 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-03 11:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-04 7:46 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-04 8:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-04 9:06 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-04 22:47 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
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