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bug#22006: 24.5; Documentation string for while
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Lars Ingebrigtsen |
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bug#22006: 24.5; Documentation string for while |
Date: |
Thu, 01 Aug 2019 19:28:00 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
phs <phs@lsv.fr> writes:
> M-h f while
>
> returns:
>
> "while is a special form in `C source code'.
>
> (while TEST BODY...)
>
> If TEST yields non-nil, eval BODY... and repeat.
> The order of execution is thus TEST, BODY, TEST, BODY and so on
> until TEST returns nil."
>
> The documentation does not say that the form itself returns nil.
(I'm going through old bug reports that have unfortunately not gotten
any responses.)
The manual does:
The value of a @code{while} form is always @code{nil}.
So I guess the doc string should, too. I've now made this change in
Emacs 27.
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