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bug#22192: Doc string of macroexp-let2 is obscure.
From: |
Alan Mackenzie |
Subject: |
bug#22192: Doc string of macroexp-let2 is obscure. |
Date: |
Thu, 17 Dec 2015 13:14:26 +0000 |
User-agent: |
Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) |
Hello, Nicolas.
On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 01:29:36PM +0100, Nicolas Richard wrote:
> Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:
> > "Bind VAR to a copyable expression that returns the value of EXP.
> > This is like `(let ((v ,EXP)) ,EXPS) except that `v' is a new generated
> > symbol which EXPS can find in VAR.
> > TEST should be the name of a predicate on EXP checking whether the
> > `let' can
> > be skipped; if nil, as is usual, `macroexp-const-p' is used."
> > This macro is widely used (over 50 times) in Emacs, and is not
> > documented in the Elisp manual. The doc string is difficult to
> > understand.
> I agree that the docstring was pretty obscure, but it was modified
> in commit 5e3fde03b45877d3e30f859a14c10043e637aa63
Yes, I was looking at the 24.5 version. Thanks for the reply, and sorry
for wasting your time. I will close the bug.
> It now is :
[ .... ]
That looks fine!
> --
> Nicolas
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