Subject: Re: bug#27584: 26.0.50; alist-get: Add optional arg TESTFN

From: Michael Heerdegen <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2017 19:36:19 +0200

Tino Calancha <[email-masked]> writes:

> -@defun alist-get key alist &optional default remove
> [...]
> -This is a generalized variable (@pxref{Generalized Variables}) that
> +The return value is a generalized variable (@pxref{Generalized

I don't think this is good wording.  When `alist-get' returns 1, do we
really want to call `1' a generalized variable?

What is settable is the place (expression), so I think we instead call
the expression of the function call "generalized variable".

Michael.