GNU bug report logs - #11571
24.0.97; doc string of `dired-get-subdir-min'

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Reported by: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Sun, 27 May 2012 21:40:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Found in version 24.0.97

Fixed in version 27.1

Done: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 11571 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: <11571 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: RE: bug#11571: 24.0.97; doc string of `dired-get-subdir-min'
Date: Sun, 27 May 2012 14:41:52 -0700

Actually, the real bug is that `dired-get-subdir-min' has no doc string, so the
doc string of `cdr' is used in its stead.  The whole point of defining and using
a separate function for this, instead of just coding with `cdr', is to enable
readers of the code - and a fortiori the doc - to think in terms of the data
structure of directories and not just abstract cons cells.  There should be doc
at the proper level of abstraction here.
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