From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>, cpitclaudel@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Poor quality documentation in edebug.el, and recursive documentation.
Date: Sat, 09 May 2020 09:47:03 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv7dxlql04.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83o8qxhcxh.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 09 May 2020 08:53:14 +0300")
> Once again: "Return value" doesn't sound right to me, since it implies
> read-only access to the value, something that AFAIU is inaccurate. It
> actually returns a settable "place", doesn't it?
AFAIK the official name for that in OO parlance is an "accessor".
Which is why I used the verb "Access".
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-09 13:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-05 20:20 Poor quality documentation in edebug.el, and recursive documentation Alan Mackenzie
2020-05-05 20:39 ` Drew Adams
2020-05-05 21:11 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2020-05-06 17:01 ` Alan Mackenzie
2020-05-06 18:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-06 18:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-08 19:59 ` Alan Mackenzie
2020-05-09 5:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-09 13:47 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2020-05-09 13:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-09 14:56 ` Alan Mackenzie
2020-05-09 15:06 ` tomas
2020-05-09 15:12 ` Andreas Schwab
2020-05-09 15:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-06 18:26 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-05 22:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-08 19:53 ` Alan Mackenzie
2020-05-08 20:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-12 6:33 ` Madhu
2020-05-12 7:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-12 14:04 ` cl-generic misdesign (was: Poor quality documentation in edebug.el, and recursive documentation) Stefan Monnier
2020-05-14 5:03 ` Richard Stallman
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