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Liang Wang wrote:

> Eldoc hint for dolist in GNU Emacs 23.0.60 is
>
>     dolist: VAR LIST RESULT BODY...
>
> It's confusing for me.
>
> I like the one in Emacs 22.  It looks like:
>
>     dolist: ((VAR LIST [RESULT]) BODY...)
>
> Is this change intentionally?  Or a bug?

It seems to be due to this?

2007-09-26  Juanma Barranquero  <lekktu@gmail.com>

   * emacs-lisp/eldoc.el (eldoc-function-argstring-format):
   Deal with the case that special &keywords are at the
   beginning or end of the argument list.  Also add some (incomplete)
   support for non-standard arglists.