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24.0.50; doc of `declare' (non-CL version)

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From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 9668 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#9668: 24.0.50; doc of `declare' (non-CL version)
Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2012 06:48:33 +0100

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

> `(elisp) Defining Macros says' that `declare' works only for `debug' and
> `indent'.  But the Emacs Lisp source code has lots of occurrences of
> `doc-string', and `ignore' as well.  Seems like the doc is not
> up-to-date?  (I'm not counting occurrences of CL's `declare special'.)

The only instances of `ignore' I could find weren't in `defmacro' forms,
which probably means that it has no effect whatsoever.

But I've now added `doc-string' to the manual.

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