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Re: Q: text-quoting-style -- is its value a string or a symbol?
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: Q: text-quoting-style -- is its value a string or a symbol? |
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Tue, 24 Nov 2015 18:28:25 +0200 |
> From: raman <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2015 08:21:37 -0800
>
> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> Let me ask you the question in reverse -- what in that *help* buffer
> tells you that this is a string and not a symbol?
It doesn't. It tells me it's a symbol. Why? because of the way it is
quoted: with single quotes, not double quotes. Single quotes is how
we mark symbols in doc strings.
> Also, this is not the first time a problem is being dismissed as "it
> exists elsewhere so it's not a problem" that in general is more likely
> to turn away contributors to the project than anything else.
I'm sorry, but where do you see a dismissal? I was saying that if
there is a problem with that doc string, it exists with many more.
- Q: text-quoting-style -- is its value a string or a symbol?, T.V Raman, 2015/11/23
- Re: Q: text-quoting-style -- is its value a string or a symbol?, Xue Fuqiao, 2015/11/23
- Re: Q: text-quoting-style -- is its value a string or a symbol?, T.V Raman, 2015/11/23
- Re: Q: text-quoting-style -- is its value a string or a symbol?, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/11/23
- Re: Q: text-quoting-style -- is its value a string or a symbol?, raman, 2015/11/23
- Re: Q: text-quoting-style -- is its value a string or a symbol?, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/11/24
- Re: Q: text-quoting-style -- is its value a string or a symbol?, raman, 2015/11/24
- Re: Q: text-quoting-style -- is its value a string or a symbol?,
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- Re: Q: text-quoting-style -- is its value a string or a symbol?, John Wiegley, 2015/11/24
- Re: Q: text-quoting-style -- is its value a string or a symbol?, T.V Raman, 2015/11/24
- Re: Q: text-quoting-style -- is its value a string or a symbol?, Paul Eggert, 2015/11/24
- Re: Q: text-quoting-style -- is its value a string or a symbol?, T.V Raman, 2015/11/24
- Re: Q: text-quoting-style -- is its value a string or a symbol?, T.V Raman, 2015/11/24
- Re: Q: text-quoting-style -- is its value a string or a symbol?, Paul Eggert, 2015/11/24
- Re: Q: text-quoting-style -- is its value a string or a symbol?, T.V Raman, 2015/11/24
RE: Q: text-quoting-style -- is its value a string or a symbol?, Drew Adams, 2015/11/23