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bug#41026: Improve documentation of `makunbound' and `fmakunbound'


From: Richard Stallman
Subject: bug#41026: Improve documentation of `makunbound' and `fmakunbound'
Date: Sat, 02 May 2020 23:43:28 -0400

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  > > +       doc: /* Make variable SYMBOL's value be void.

  > What's a variable symbol?

That is a grammatical misparsing.
That sentence does not talk about a "variable symbol".
It talks about a variable, and SYMBOL stands for that variable.
It is like  "the buffer BUF".

Would it be clearer to say "Make the variable VAR's value be void"
and call the argument 'var'?

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