From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com>
Cc: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 425c281 1/3: Allow t as a catch-all condition-case handler (Bug#24618)
Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2018 11:31:14 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv36uoarok.fsf-monnier+emacsdiffs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAM-tV-_1pK7FFvbBsf5QD2qShRWeEenWbFH-i-4c+PHp_pok7g@mail.gmail.com> (Noam Postavsky's message of "Wed, 5 Sep 2018 10:38:11 -0400")
> Hmm, right. The rest of the docstring talks only about errors though.
> Should we change the whole thing? While technically more accurate,
> saying "Regain control when a signal is signaled" sounds a bit funny.
I think the solution normally used is that "signal" is only used for the
action, while the event-object is called "condition". I.e.
"Regain control when a condition is signaled".
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-09-05 15:31 UTC|newest]
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[not found] <20180904230314.12505.44942@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org>
[not found] ` <20180904230315.6EB44209DC@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org>
2018-09-05 2:46 ` [Emacs-diffs] master 425c281 1/3: Allow t as a catch-all condition-case handler (Bug#24618) Stefan Monnier
2018-09-05 14:38 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-09-05 15:31 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2018-09-07 1:01 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-09-07 1:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-09-07 1:10 ` Davis Herring
2018-09-08 2:16 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-09-17 0:40 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-09-07 6:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-07 7:00 ` Davis Herring
2018-09-07 7:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <<83ftylvkgw.fsf@gnu.org>
2018-09-07 15:19 ` Drew Adams
[not found] ` <<83in3hvlyx.fsf@gnu.org>
2018-09-07 15:17 ` Drew Adams
2018-09-05 15:31 ` Stefan Monnier
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