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24.1.50; doc of `dired-do-create-files' refers user to undocumented var/fn

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From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> gnu.org>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 11327 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: 24.1.50;
	doc of `dired-do-create-files' refers user to undocumented var/fn
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 03:36:58 -0400

> The doc string says:
> ... "The way the default for the target directory is computed depends on
> the value of `dired-dwim-target-directory'."
> There is no variable with that name.  And a function does not have a
> "value".

The "value" of a function is its return value.
See (elisp)What Is a Function

But anyway, I reworded the docstring to make it clearer.

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