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From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: 63851-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: Bruno Victal <mirai@makinata.eu>
Subject: bug#63851: [PATCH] doc: Use the term "Procedure" for definitions.
Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2023 23:48:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pm65y6ao.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f96b56b25e4ff920d3e76543befe9b527aac8379.1685721273.git.ludo@gnu.org> ("Ludovic Courtès"'s message of "Fri, 2 Jun 2023 17:55:29 +0200")

Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> skribis:

> In an effort to homogenize things, commit
> 3c40dfe2851dd4ef48d2711f9f3531c06afbe1f2 replaced:
>
>   @deffn {Scheme Procedure}
>
> with:
>
>   @defun
>
> However, the latter prints "Function" when all existing material about
> Scheme uses the term "procedure".
>
> Thus, for consistency, this commit switches to:
>
>   @deffn {Procedure}
>
> * doc/guix.texi, doc/contributing.texi: Use "@deffn {Procedure}"
> consistently rather than "@defun" or similar.

Pushed as aceb150d29832e824446b29fab821acda50531ff.

As discussed on IRC, Texinfo macros are too limited: we can’t have a
‘@defproc’ macro.  So be it…

Ludo’.




      reply	other threads:[~2023-06-08 21:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-06-02 15:55 [bug#63851] [PATCH] doc: Use the term "Procedure" for definitions Ludovic Courtès
2023-06-08 21:48 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]

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