Subject: RE: bug#36408: [PATCH] Fix typo in doc string of file-exists-p

From: Drew Adams <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2019 08:38:55 -0700 (PDT)

> > -       doc: /* Return t if file FILENAME exists (whether or not you
> > can read it.)
> > +       doc: /* Return t if file FILENAME exists (whether or not you
> > can read it).
> 
> AFAIK, this is a long-standing stylistic issue.  I'm not sure what
> people prefer or whether we should insist on consistency in these
> cases.

FWIW: There's no stylistic issue here.  The first
is incorrect; the second is correct.  You won't
find any style guide that would opt for or approve
of the former: "___ ___ (__ __.)".  That's not even
a sentence.