GNU bug report logs - #6591
24.0.50; incorrect doc for `catch'

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Message #137 received at 6591 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: "'Andreas Schwab'" <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
Cc: 'Chong Yidong' <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>, 6591 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
	'Eli Zaretskii' <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 'Richard Stallman' <rms <at> gnu.org>
Subject: RE: bug#6591: 24.0.50; incorrect doc for `catch'
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 11:35:36 -0700

> > The point is that `...' typically means, when describing 
> > syntax, that whatever it follows can be repeated.
> 
> Which is exactly what it does.

So your position is that BODY itself can be repeated.  That contradicts Eli's
position (and mine) that there is only one body.

And in that case, the text that accompanies the syntax description does not fit,
since it too speaks of "the body".

A. If BODY can be repeated (your position), then there can be more than one
BODY.

B. If BODY cannot be repeated, so there is only one BODY, then `BODY...' does
not signify repetition of BODY.  So `...' does not signify that whatever it
follows can be repeated.

You've made your choice for A.  Yet you want to claim that `...' still signifies
repetition of what it follows, BODY.  Think again.

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