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bug#45715: 27.1; Doc string of `dotimes'


From: Noam Postavsky
Subject: bug#45715: 27.1; Doc string of `dotimes'
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2021 08:16:45 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.3 (windows-nt)

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
>
>>   Loop a certain number of times.
>>   Evaluate BODY with VAR bound to successive integers running from 0,
>>   inclusive, to COUNT, exclusive.  Then evaluate RESULT to get the
>>   return value (nil if RESULT is omitted).  Its use is deprecated.
>>                                             ^^^
>>
>> In the last sentence, "its" is unclear.
>
> Indeed, which is why it's
>
> ---
> Finally RESULT is evaluated to get the return value (nil if
> RESULT is omitted).  Using RESULT is deprecated, and may result
> in compilation warnings about unused variables.
> ---
>
> in Emacs 28.

Also, I've backported that change to emacs-27, so it will show up in
27.2.

[1: 9d02e6c5ff]: 2020-11-18 15:45:48 -0500
  Further doc fixes for dotimes about RESULT
  
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?id=9d02e6c5ff2a8af78ca8a2c934970f8a46dcef55





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