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bug#6591: 24.0.50; incorrect doc for `catch'
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Štěpán Němec |
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bug#6591: 24.0.50; incorrect doc for `catch' |
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Sun, 11 Jul 2010 12:59:38 +0200 |
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: =?utf-8?B?xaB0xJtww6FuIE7Em21lYw==?= <stepnem@gmail.com>
>> Cc: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>, 6591@debbugs.gnu.org, Richard
> Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
>> Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2010 10:14:47 +0200
>>
>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>>
>> > Using FORM... is okay, but will need more extensive changes, so I'd
>> > rather not do it. I'd like to simply remove the dots after BODY, and
>> > explain in the text that BODY can consist of one or more forms.
>> >
>> > Does anyone see any reason why keeping the dots in BODY... will have
>> > some didactical importance? Richard? Stefan? Yidong?
>>
>> Well, just look at `when' -- ISTM it has the very same "problem" as
>> discussed here. And it's probably not the only one/two.
>
> Sorry, I don't get your point. Sure, there are places in the manual
> that use "FORM...", but that doesn't necessarily mean it's the only
> possible way of describing that. "BODY..." is used in quite a few
> places as well, and I was only talking about those.
You were asking about BODY...
`when' uses BODY..., and IMO in `when' `BODY...' means the very same
thing as in `catch' (i.e., "any number of forms"), which you're now
apparently about to change.
Štěpán
- bug#6591: 24.0.50; incorrect doc for `catch', (continued)
- bug#6591: 24.0.50; incorrect doc for `catch', Drew Adams, 2010/07/09
- bug#6591: 24.0.50; incorrect doc for `catch', Eli Zaretskii, 2010/07/10
- bug#6591: 24.0.50; incorrect doc for `catch', Drew Adams, 2010/07/10
- bug#6591: 24.0.50; incorrect doc for `catch', Eli Zaretskii, 2010/07/10
- bug#6591: 24.0.50; incorrect doc for `catch', Drew Adams, 2010/07/10
- bug#6591: 24.0.50; incorrect doc for `catch', Eli Zaretskii, 2010/07/10
- bug#6591: 24.0.50; incorrect doc for `catch', Drew Adams, 2010/07/11
- bug#6591: 24.0.50; incorrect doc for `catch', Eli Zaretskii, 2010/07/11
- bug#6591: 24.0.50; incorrect doc for `catch', Štěpán Němec, 2010/07/11
- bug#6591: 24.0.50; incorrect doc for `catch', Eli Zaretskii, 2010/07/11
- bug#6591: 24.0.50; incorrect doc for `catch',
Štěpán Němec <=
- bug#6591: 24.0.50; incorrect doc for `catch', Eli Zaretskii, 2010/07/11
- bug#6591: 24.0.50; incorrect doc for `catch', Štěpán Němec, 2010/07/11
- bug#6591: 24.0.50; incorrect doc for `catch', Eli Zaretskii, 2010/07/11
- bug#6591: 24.0.50; incorrect doc for `catch', Andreas Schwab, 2010/07/11
- bug#6591: 24.0.50; incorrect doc for `catch', Drew Adams, 2010/07/11
- bug#6591: 24.0.50; incorrect doc for `catch', Eli Zaretskii, 2010/07/11
- bug#6591: 24.0.50; incorrect doc for `catch', Drew Adams, 2010/07/11
- bug#6591: 24.0.50; incorrect doc for `catch', Eli Zaretskii, 2010/07/11
- bug#6591: 24.0.50; incorrect doc for `catch', Chong Yidong, 2010/07/11
- bug#6591: 24.0.50; incorrect doc for `catch', Drew Adams, 2010/07/11