Subject: RE: bug#6591: 24.0.50; incorrect doc for `catch'

From: "Drew Adams" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2010 14:44:33 -0700

> > which `...' means repetition of what it follows.
> 
> Which fits perfectly.

Repetition of what it follows.
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

What does `...' follow?  BODY.
Is BODY repeated?        No.

For Emacs, `...' does not mean repetition of what it follows (per what Eli has
said).  Instead, it means that what it follows is a &rest parameter.

For Emacs, (X BODY...) means the same as (X &rest BODY) and (X . BODY).

Which, as I said, is a legitimate, if unwise and unusual, choice.
It just needs to be spelled out in the doc.

Read the thread.  I'm not going to repeat everything that has been said.