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bug#41026: Improve documentation of `makunbound' and `fmakunbound'
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#41026: Improve documentation of `makunbound' and `fmakunbound' |
Date: |
Sat, 02 May 2020 18:41:15 +0300 |
> From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
> Date: Sat, 02 May 2020 17:00:02 +0200
> Cc: 41026@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> writes:
>
> > On Mai 02 2020, Stefan Kangas wrote:
> >
> >> + doc: /* Make variable SYMBOL's value be void.
> >
> > What's a variable symbol? Is that the same as a varying symbol?
>
> The sentence is a bit unwieldy to get right, if you also want to
> include the word "variable". Is this clearer?
>
> "Make the value of the variable named SYMBOL be void."
I think the ELisp manual gets it right:
Empty out the value cell of SYMBOL, making it void as a variable.
- bug#41026: Improve documentation of `makunbound' and `fmakunbound', (continued)
- bug#41026: Improve documentation of `makunbound' and `fmakunbound', Andreas Schwab, 2020/05/02
- bug#41026: Improve documentation of `makunbound' and `fmakunbound', Stefan Kangas, 2020/05/02
- bug#41026: Improve documentation of `makunbound' and `fmakunbound', Richard Stallman, 2020/05/03
- bug#41026: Improve documentation of `makunbound' and `fmakunbound', Andreas Schwab, 2020/05/04
- bug#41026: Improve documentation of `makunbound' and `fmakunbound', Stefan Kangas, 2020/05/04
- bug#41026: Improve documentation of `makunbound' and `fmakunbound', Andreas Schwab, 2020/05/04
- bug#41026: Improve documentation of `makunbound' and `fmakunbound', Eli Zaretskii, 2020/05/03
- bug#41026: Improve documentation of `makunbound' and `fmakunbound', Stefan Kangas, 2020/05/03
bug#41026: Improve documentation of `makunbound' and `fmakunbound', Andreas Schwab, 2020/05/02