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

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2010 15:53:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Found in version 24.0.50

Done: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #74 received at 6591 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
Cc: 6591 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, stepnem <at> gmail.com, rms <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#6591: 24.0.50; incorrect doc for `catch'
Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2010 20:22:55 +0300

> From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
> Cc: =?utf-8?B?xaB0xJtww6FuIE7Em21lYw==?= <stepnem <at> gmail.com>,
>   6591 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,  rms <at> gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2010 17:26:03 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > ??? Whatever gave you the idea that BODY is only one form?
> 
> BODY is a single form, BODY... is a sequence of forms.

BODY is whatever follows TAG, till the closing parenthesis.  That's
why it is called "body".  If we would like to say "form", we would do
just that.
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