Re: The purpose of makunbound

[Kelly Dean]

Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
>Richard Stallman writes:
>
>>> Ok, great! Since the term ‟void” is fine, let's use ⌜Qvoid⌝ for
>>> the corresponding constant in the source code.
>>
>> I won't argue against it.
>
> I will.
[snip]
> @Stefan: Please refuse to make this change.

@Stefan:
Stephen objects to the change of Qunbound to Qvoid. Richard does not object.

The change would make the source code more consistent with the manual, which 
almost always uses the term ‟void” for the Qunbound state. Even the docstrings 
for makunbound and boundp use ‟void”, not ‟unbound”.

Section 11.4 ((elisp) Void Variables) even has four occurrences of ‟void” as a 
verb meaning «to make the state void», and uses ‟voidness” to mean «the state 
of being void».

The change would also make the source code more consistent with itself, since 
it already has Qvoid_variable, not Qunbound_variable, as the corresponding 
error code.

Stefan, may I make the change?