GNU bug report logs - #3740
documentation of args to `documentation-property' differ info<-->docstring on 23.0.92.1 thru 23.0.95

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: MON KEY <monkey <at> sandpframing.com>

Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 18:30:04 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: wontfix

Merged with 7160

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #30 received at control <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: MON KEY <monkey <at> sandpframing.com>
Cc: 3740 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
        control <control <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#3740: documentation of args to `documentation-property'  differ info<-->docstring on 23.0.92.1 thru 23.0.95
Date: Sat, 04 Jul 2009 19:16:04 -0400
severity 3740 minor
tags 3740 wontfix
stop

MON KEY wrote:

> Surely you don't hold this view for _all_ functions.

Yep. When one writes a function, one tends to use short variable names
(`prop'), when one documents it in a manual, one might want to use
more descriptive argument names (`properties'). They're just dummy
variables, it doesn't matter to me what they are called.



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