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bug#27584: 26.0.50; alist-get: Add optional arg TESTFN


From: Michael Heerdegen
Subject: bug#27584: 26.0.50; alist-get: Add optional arg TESTFN
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2017 19:36:19 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Tino Calancha <tino.calancha@gmail.com> writes:

> -@defun alist-get key alist &optional default remove
> [...]
> -This is a generalized variable (@pxref{Generalized Variables}) that
> +The return value is a generalized variable (@pxref{Generalized

I don't think this is good wording.  When `alist-get' returns 1, do we
really want to call `1' a generalized variable?

What is settable is the place (expression), so I think we instead call
the expression of the function call "generalized variable".


Michael.





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