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Re: Broken sit-for
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Michaël Cadilhac |
Subject: |
Re: Broken sit-for |
Date: |
Mon, 11 Sep 2006 16:22:15 +0200 |
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address@hidden (Kim F. Storm) writes:
> address@hidden (Michaël Cadilhac) writes:
>
>> I still think this line should be slightly changed to say something
>> about zero (and negative) values of SECONDS.
>
> To me it seems quite obvious that "seconds <= 0" implies "waited the
> full time".
It does to me too, and that's the problem.
The docstring says the following :
> Value is t if waited the full time with no input arriving, and nil
> otherwise.
I said earlier:
> Maybe this part of the docstring should be slightly changed to say
> that a negative or null value of SECONDS is not considered to be fully
> waited if an input was pending before the call to sit-for.
I think the current docstring is ambiguous on this point: if seconds
is <= 0, one could think that _whatever the input_ SECONDS is
considered to be fully waited, whilst it's not the case.
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- Minor fix for life.el., Michaël Cadilhac, 2006/09/06
- Re: Minor fix for life.el., David Kastrup, 2006/09/06
- Re: Minor fix for life.el., Michaël Cadilhac, 2006/09/06
- Re: Minor fix for life.el., David Kastrup, 2006/09/06
- Broken sit-for [was: Re: Minor fix for life.el.], Kim F. Storm, 2006/09/07
- Re: Broken sit-for, Michaël Cadilhac, 2006/09/08
- Re: Broken sit-for [was: Re: Minor fix for life.el.], Kim F. Storm, 2006/09/09
- Re: Broken sit-for, David Kastrup, 2006/09/09
- Re: Broken sit-for, Michaël Cadilhac, 2006/09/10
- Re: Broken sit-for, Kim F. Storm, 2006/09/10
- Re: Broken sit-for,
Michaël Cadilhac <=
- Re: Broken sit-for, Kim F. Storm, 2006/09/10