Subject: Re: bug#5744: 23.1.92; doc string of `version<' etc.

From: Štěpán Němec <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2010 18:44:19 +0100

"Drew Adams" <[email-masked]> writes:

> 1. Change "lesser than" to "less than".

"Lesser" seems completely fine to me, but I'm not a native speaker.

>
> 2. Say explicitly that V1 and V2 are strings.

I think that's clear from the docstring, but more clarity never hurts, yes.

> Say in fact that they are strings of the format returned by variable
> `emacs-version'.

That would be misleading at best IMHO.
The function accepts a far wider set of arguments.

Also note that you would most probably want to change docstrings of
the whole family of the version functions to stay consistent.