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bug#13292: 24.3.50; wrong sytax description in (elisp) Case Tables


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: bug#13292: 24.3.50; wrong sytax description in (elisp) Case Tables
Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2012 20:30:34 +0200

> From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> Cc: <13292@debbugs.gnu.org>
> Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2012 08:57:28 -0800
> 
> > > The parameters should be uppercase everywhere.
> > 
> > They never were.  This is how Info works.
> > Closing.
> 
> In that case, there are bugs in the other direction, in other nodes of the
> manual - nodes that use uppercase for parameters.
> 
> For example:
> 
> `A Sample Function Description' - `count-loop'
> `Syntax Table Functions' - `with-syntax-table'
> `Using Lexical Binding' - `special-variable-p'
> `Syntax Table Internals' - `string-to-syntax'
> `Declare Form' - `declare'
> 
> Note that `A Sample Function Description' is the very place where we explain 
> the
> syntax convention and give an example of it.  Not a good place to set a bad
> example.

It's not bad.  This is done on purpose, see the Texinfo sources, which
use @var in this case.

> Reopening.  There is clearly some cleanup to be done.

Reclosing.  Please stop this ridicule.





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