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bug#19118: 25.0.50; [patch] Change the argument names of function-put (c


From: Nicolas Richard
Subject: bug#19118: 25.0.50; [patch] Change the argument names of function-put (currently: "ARG1 ARG2 ARG3")
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 21:12:33 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4.50 (gnu/linux)

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: Nicolas Richard <theonewiththeevillook@yahoo.fr>
>> Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 12:33:01 +0100
>> 
>> -  #'(lambda (f prop value) (put f prop value))
>> -  "Set function F's property PROP to VALUE.
>> +  #'(lambda (function prop value) (put function prop value))
>> +  "Set function FUNCTION's property PROP to VALUE.
>>  The namespace for PROP is shared with symbols.
>> -So far, F can only be a symbol, not a lambda expression.")
>> +So far, FUNCTION can only be a symbol, not a lambda expression.
>
> Stylistically, "function FUNCTION" is tautology.  How about this
> variant:
>
>   Set FUNCTION's property PROP to VALUE.
>   So far, FUNCTION can only be a function symbol, not a lambda
> expression.

Thanks.

Are you suggesting that "The namespace for PROP is shared with symbols."
should be removed ? Btw, is that a fancy way of saying "PROP is a
symbol" ?

-- 
Nicolas





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