GNU bug report logs - #25292
Ambiguity in doc string of defvar

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>

Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2016 18:20:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Done: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 25292 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>
Cc: 25292 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#25292: Ambiguity in doc string of defvar
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2016 20:29:15 +0200

> Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2016 18:18:38 +0000
> From: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>
> 
>     INITVALUE is evaluated, and if SYMBOL's value is void, it is used to
>     set SYMBOL.                                            ^^

That "it" is ambiguous.  By default, people tend to interpret "it" as
referring to the last noun before it, but that's not what you mean in
this case.

And after all that, are you sure INITVALUE is always evaluated?
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