GNU bug report logs - #15558
[gnu.org #859332] Error in elisp on line documentation

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Bill Freeman <ke1g.nh <at> gmail.com>

Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2013 23:33:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Fixed in version 24.4

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: 15558 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: ke1g.nh <at> gmail.com, webmasters-comment <at> gnu.org
Subject: bug#15558: [gnu.org #859332] Error in elisp on line documentation
Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2013 12:17:56 -0400

"Robert Musial via RT" wrote:

>> Yet it is perfectly legal for a clause to have no body-forms, only a
>> condition.
[...]
>> The current text actually leaves the value undefined for this case.  It is
>> a useful case, and should be correctly documented.

It is documented (if a little clunkily):

    A clause may also look like this:

    (condition)

    Then, if condition is non-nil when tested, the value of condition
    becomes the value of the cond form. 


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