From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#69387: 30.0.50; A string shouldn't be both a docstring and a return value Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2024 13:23:00 -0500 Message-ID: References: <86jzmswjq2.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Stefan Monnier Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="13082"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Cc: 69387@debbugs.gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 25 19:41:01 2024 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1reJQq-0003Ax-R2 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 25 Feb 2024 19:41:01 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1reJQZ-0007ij-1z; Sun, 25 Feb 2024 13:40:43 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1reJQX-0007hO-4q for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Feb 2024 13:40:41 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:5::43]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1reJQW-0000SK-ND for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Feb 2024 13:40:40 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1reJQv-0001EA-Gt for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Feb 2024 13:41:05 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Stefan Monnier Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2024 18:41:05 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 69387 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 69387-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B69387.17088864324560 (code B ref 69387); Sun, 25 Feb 2024 18:41:05 +0000 Original-Received: (at 69387) by debbugs.gnu.org; 25 Feb 2024 18:40:32 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37967 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1reJQN-0001BN-UB for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 25 Feb 2024 13:40:32 -0500 Original-Received: from mailscanner.iro.umontreal.ca ([132.204.25.50]:22537) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1reJ9x-0000LX-1A for 69387@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 25 Feb 2024 13:23:33 -0500 Original-Received: from pmg1.iro.umontreal.ca (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by pmg1.iro.umontreal.ca (Proxmox) with ESMTP id BDADE10005D; Sun, 25 Feb 2024 13:23:02 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=iro.umontreal.ca; s=mail; t=1708885381; bh=xoZJtqLHqbkT7Q+glbCJF72GTF4DiK08CztXvcFmzns=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:Date:From; b=Bh6Y0D/Q7fbZnJovGI+/v0+RSVPZTYEapFSuoc5dTNr56S0eBst6O8TBLEVmRnEoR IRvz8OY8Do6moIhNxS6EC9rapz1u4l0BtYf85cWR8mD/AGvGlDN78aLqyrvNZrYc0e oUHI+t7ShMZW97xrHw+66l3X1D2nqO6FxxWxs/BeqLUKn7I7hRJF01WL3wRuSPL4AA wHaLE75V79/Krp1SFyBNU6GDXKVjzpY26Gah9e8ENdHEmBxeZ5ECKk6U+Rd4h9lIgK 16JlZdFVRmLk10XmWHEw6876qVyVjRMhIypZon2IscBfGfJo3VcCNzQP9ySesLSFAv oDrdc2NXIstmg== Original-Received: from mail01.iro.umontreal.ca (unknown [172.31.2.1]) by pmg1.iro.umontreal.ca (Proxmox) with ESMTP id BF85610004A; Sun, 25 Feb 2024 13:23:01 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from alfajor (unknown [45.72.205.238]) by mail01.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 982A2120209; Sun, 25 Feb 2024 13:23:01 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <86jzmswjq2.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sun, 25 Feb 2024 19:13:09 +0200") X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:280635 Archived-At: > Here again we are changing age-old (mis)features, which some code > somewhere probably relies upon. Why? because a newly-introduced > byte-compilation warning erroneously flagged that as a mistake in the > doc string. > > My vote is to leave this alone. There is no benefit to this misfeature. Leaving this alone will maintain a low-level of pain for the foreseeable future. Fixing it may introduce minor breakage (like `C-h m` saying there's no docstring) in the short term but these are easy to fix and they'll disappear quickly. Stefan