GNU bug report logs - #31052
26.0.91; Improve documentation of inline-letevals

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Gemini Lasswell <gazally <at> runbox.com>

Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2018 00:35:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: fixed

Found in version 26.0.91

Fixed in version 28.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Gemini Lasswell <gazally <at> runbox.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 31052 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#31052: 26.0.91; Improve documentation of inline-letevals
Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2018 10:10:39 -0700

Eli Zaretskii writes:

> How about if you first tell informally what information is missing
> from the original text, and then we see how to augment that by adding
> the missing bits?

The main question the existing documentation doesn't answer is what the
purpose of inline-letevals is and why it should be used instead of 'let'.
The misleading part of the existing documentation is that it describes
inline-letevals as similar to 'let' without mentioning that it does a
completely different thing to symbols in the binding list.
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