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bug#27229: eldoc wrong highlighting for "when"


From: Andy Moreton
Subject: bug#27229: eldoc wrong highlighting for "when"
Date: Sat, 04 Sep 2021 14:23:25 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (windows-nt)

On Sat 04 Sep 2021, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:

> Andy Moreton <andrewjmoreton@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Without using "fn", it is shown as "(when COND &rest BODY)" which is
>> less helpful than showing "(when COND BODY...)".
>
> What do you feel the semantic difference is between the two?  And why
> should `when' have this fn rewrite when we have hundreds of other
> macros with &rest body that don't have an fn?

I think that the difference is whether the user sees it as describing
arguments to a function call, or forms in a control structure. The
"(when COND BODY...)" version also matches the style used for `if'.

Most of the other macros are intended to look like function calls to the
user, not control structures.

    AndyM








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