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bug#21391: 24.5; `thing-at-point' should return a string
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#21391: 24.5; `thing-at-point' should return a string |
Date: |
Fri, 11 Nov 2016 16:51:08 +0200 |
> Cc: 21391@debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
> Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2016 16:46:14 +0200
>
> On 11.11.2016 16:35, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
> >> The current implementation makes the things harder to understand.
> >> Currently one user need to read the source code to know the actual
> >> type this function returns.
> >
> > If that's a problem, let's improve the doc string (and the manual, if
> > needed) to make this more clear.
>
> Improve how? By saying that the function behaves in a variety of ways,
> solely depending on which `thing' it is passed?
Improve it by describing whatever it is that is evident from the code
that is not evident from the doc string.
> That won't make it much clearer, or make it easier to follow code that
> uses `thing-at-point'.
I don't understand why. It's not like we don't have other functions
that can return different kinds of objects.
- bug#21391: 24.5; `thing-at-point' should return a string, (continued)
- bug#21391: 24.5; `thing-at-point' should return a string, Dmitry Gutov, 2016/11/10
- bug#21391: 24.5; `thing-at-point' should return a string, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/11/10
- bug#21391: 24.5; `thing-at-point' should return a string, Dmitry Gutov, 2016/11/10
- bug#21391: 24.5; `thing-at-point' should return a string, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/11/10
- bug#21391: 24.5; `thing-at-point' should return a string, Dmitry Gutov, 2016/11/10
- bug#21391: 24.5; `thing-at-point' should return a string, Tino Calancha, 2016/11/11
- bug#21391: 24.5; `thing-at-point' should return a string, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/11/11
- bug#21391: 24.5; `thing-at-point' should return a string, Tino Calancha, 2016/11/11
- bug#21391: 24.5; `thing-at-point' should return a string, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/11/11
- bug#21391: 24.5; `thing-at-point' should return a string, Dmitry Gutov, 2016/11/11
- bug#21391: 24.5; `thing-at-point' should return a string,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- bug#21391: 24.5; `thing-at-point' should return a string, Dmitry Gutov, 2016/11/11
- bug#21391: 24.5; `thing-at-point' should return a string, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/11/11
- bug#21391: 24.5; `thing-at-point' should return a string, Tino Calancha, 2016/11/11
- bug#21391: 24.5; `thing-at-point' should return a string, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/11/11
- bug#21391: 24.5; `thing-at-point' should return a string, Dmitry Gutov, 2016/11/13
- bug#21391: 24.5; `thing-at-point' should return a string, Drew Adams, 2016/11/13
- bug#21391: 24.5; `thing-at-point' should return a string, Andreas Röhler, 2016/11/14
- bug#21391: 24.5; `thing-at-point' should return a string, Drew Adams, 2016/11/14
- bug#21391: 24.5; `thing-at-point' should return a string, Andreas Röhler, 2016/11/16
- bug#21391: 24.5; `thing-at-point' should return a string, Drew Adams, 2016/11/16