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[debbugs-tracker] bug#26635: closed (25.1; elisp docs bug)


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Subject: [debbugs-tracker] bug#26635: closed (25.1; elisp docs bug)
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2017 10:51:01 +0000

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regarding 25.1; elisp docs bug
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--- Begin Message --- Subject: 25.1; elisp docs bug Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2017 11:35:55 +0800 The elisp docs in the session "12.1 What Is a Function?" distinction the funtion and the function-like object.
But in some pages, some function-like object is give as a function.
For example:
In session "3.4 Comparison of Numbers", "=" is a set to a "function" but, in fact it a "special forms".

In the same resason, I think, "<", "<=", ">", ">=" also should be "special forms".


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--- Begin Message --- Subject: Re: 回复: bug#26635: 25.1; elisp docs bug Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2017 12:50:20 +0200 User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.2 (gnu/linux)
On Apr 24 2017, "zhangjg" <address@hidden> wrote:

> Like the fellow code:
>
>   (= 1 1 t) ; error
>   (= 1 2 t) ; nil
>
> t is a symbol, (= 1 1 t) signal a error, that is what we expect. 
> But in the second form there is no error, because  "=" get the
> result before to eval the third argument "t". 

All arguments are evaluated, by the caller.  Try (= 1 2 (foo)), for
example.

> So "=" not to eval all arguments, that is  a "sepecial form" activation.

It may _ignore_ some of its arguments, but that's not what `special
form' is about.  Any function is free to ignore arguments.

Andreas.

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