GNU bug report logs - #24014
24.5; doc string of `cl-reduce'

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Package: emacs;

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

Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2016 14:56:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Found in version 24.5

Fixed in version 28.1

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 24.5; doc string of `cl-reduce'
Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2016 07:55:07 -0700 (PDT)

Please state in the doc string what the function does.  IOW,
explain/describe/specify what "reduce" means.  Do not suppose that Emacs
Lisp users are all familiar with functional programming etc.

If _you_ understand it, you should be able to describe it in a couple of
sentences.  It's not a complicated thing, but just repeating the word
"reduce" from the function name is not sufficient - not helpful.

In GNU Emacs 24.5.1 (i686-pc-mingw32)
 of 2015-04-11 on LEG570
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 6.1.7601
Configured using:
 `configure --prefix=/c/usr --host=i686-pc-mingw32'
This bug report was last modified 3 years and 212 days ago.

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