Subject: bug#41026: Improve documentation of `makunbound' and `fmakunbound'

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 02 May 2020 18:41:15 +0300

> From: Stefan Kangas <[email-masked]>
> Date: Sat, 02 May 2020 17:00:02 +0200
> Cc: [email-masked]
> 
> Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
> > On Mai 02 2020, Stefan Kangas wrote:
> >
> >> +       doc: /* Make variable SYMBOL's value be void.
> >
> > What's a variable symbol?  Is that the same as a varying symbol?
> 
> The sentence is a bit unwieldy to get right, if you also want to
> include the word "variable".  Is this clearer?
> 
> "Make the value of the variable named SYMBOL be void."

I think the ELisp manual gets it right:

  Empty out the value cell of SYMBOL, making it void as a variable.