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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
Cc: 14743@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#14743: 24.3.50; doc string of `read-regexp'
Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2013 16:06:44 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <cfad02f2-b842-4e58-b38a-bf55d2dc1d68@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zju8lfr3.fsf@mail.jurta.org>

> > Optional argument DEFAULT is a string or a list of the form
> > \(DEFLT . SUGGESTIONS), where DEFLT is a string or nil.
> 
> The name DEFLT is too obscure.

OK.

For years we called even some very prominent command parameters DEF.
That can be confused with "def" as in "define" or "definition", but
it would probably be OK here: (DEF . SUGGESTIONS).

The parameter name should not be the same as its car.





  reply	other threads:[~2013-06-29 23:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-28 21:46 bug#14743: 24.3.50; doc string of `read-regexp' Drew Adams
2013-06-29  7:02 ` Drew Adams
2013-06-29 22:20   ` Juri Linkov
2013-06-29 23:06     ` Drew Adams [this message]
2014-02-08  6:40 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2014-02-10  4:33   ` Drew Adams

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