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bug#27229: eldoc wrong highlighting for "when"
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Richard Stallman |
Subject: |
bug#27229: eldoc wrong highlighting for "when" |
Date: |
Wed, 04 May 2022 18:47:48 -0400 |
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> > > So now "C-h f when" says
> > >
> > > (when COND &rest BODY)
> > >
> > > where it previously said
> > >
> > > (when COND BODY...)
> > >
> > > Isn't this a regression?
> >
> > In what way? We have &rest BODY all over the place, and it's the
> > correct syntax to specify that there's a body, so I don't understand
> > what you mean.
> But when and unless aren't functions, they are "special forms". So
> using &rest there is less self-explanatory for those who aren't
> necessarily privy to the internals.
That is right. The keywords &rest and &optional are for arguments,
and they imply that the values are evaluated in the usual way.
A special form is a syntactic construct, not a function call.
Its parts are not arguments to a function.
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- bug#27229: eldoc wrong highlighting for "when", (continued)
- bug#27229: eldoc wrong highlighting for "when", Eli Zaretskii, 2022/05/02
- bug#27229: eldoc wrong highlighting for "when", Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2022/05/03
- bug#27229: eldoc wrong highlighting for "when", Eli Zaretskii, 2022/05/03
- bug#27229: eldoc wrong highlighting for "when", Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2022/05/03
- bug#27229: eldoc wrong highlighting for "when", Eli Zaretskii, 2022/05/03
- bug#27229: eldoc wrong highlighting for "when", Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2022/05/03
- bug#27229: eldoc wrong highlighting for "when", Eli Zaretskii, 2022/05/03
- bug#27229: eldoc wrong highlighting for "when", Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2022/05/04
- bug#27229: eldoc wrong highlighting for "when", Eli Zaretskii, 2022/05/04
- bug#27229: eldoc wrong highlighting for "when", Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2022/05/04
- bug#27229: eldoc wrong highlighting for "when",
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