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Re: Poor quality documentation in edebug.el, and recursive documentation
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: Poor quality documentation in edebug.el, and recursive documentation. |
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Sat, 09 May 2020 16:53:09 +0300 |
> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> Cc: Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden>, address@hidden, address@hidden
> Date: Sat, 09 May 2020 09:47:03 -0400
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> > Once again: "Return value" doesn't sound right to me, since it implies
> > read-only access to the value, something that AFAIU is inaccurate. It
> > actually returns a settable "place", doesn't it?
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> AFAIK the official name for that in OO parlance is an "accessor".
> Which is why I used the verb "Access".
That's okay, but the patch in question proposes to replace "Access"
with "Return value of", and I think this will make the documentation
less accurate than the original. Or am I missing something?
- Poor quality documentation in edebug.el, and recursive documentation., Alan Mackenzie, 2020/05/05
- RE: Poor quality documentation in edebug.el, and recursive documentation., Drew Adams, 2020/05/05
- Re: Poor quality documentation in edebug.el, and recursive documentation., Clément Pit-Claudel, 2020/05/05
- Re: Poor quality documentation in edebug.el, and recursive documentation., Alan Mackenzie, 2020/05/06
- Re: Poor quality documentation in edebug.el, and recursive documentation., Stefan Monnier, 2020/05/06
- Re: Poor quality documentation in edebug.el, and recursive documentation., Eli Zaretskii, 2020/05/06
- Re: Poor quality documentation in edebug.el, and recursive documentation., Alan Mackenzie, 2020/05/08
- Re: Poor quality documentation in edebug.el, and recursive documentation., Eli Zaretskii, 2020/05/09
- Re: Poor quality documentation in edebug.el, and recursive documentation., Stefan Monnier, 2020/05/09
- Re: Poor quality documentation in edebug.el, and recursive documentation.,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: Poor quality documentation in edebug.el, and recursive documentation., Alan Mackenzie, 2020/05/09
- Re: Poor quality documentation in edebug.el, and recursive documentation., tomas, 2020/05/09
- Re: Poor quality documentation in edebug.el, and recursive documentation., Andreas Schwab, 2020/05/09
- Re: Poor quality documentation in edebug.el, and recursive documentation., Eli Zaretskii, 2020/05/09
- Re: Poor quality documentation in edebug.el, and recursive documentation., Stefan Monnier, 2020/05/06
Re: Poor quality documentation in edebug.el, and recursive documentation., Stefan Monnier, 2020/05/05