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Re: doc for catch & throw should not mention "tag"


From: Luc Teirlinck
Subject: Re: doc for catch & throw should not mention "tag"
Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2006 17:01:24 -0500 (CDT)

Drew Adams wrote:

   The doc strings and the Emacs Lisp-manual doc for `catch' and `throw'
   currently refer to the catch target as the "tag".  Because of possible
   confusion with tags files, and to let searching the manual for "\btag"
   find only occurrences that involve tag files, the doc for `catch' and
   `throw' should call the target something like "target" or "label"
   instead of "tag".

"tag" is just standard Lisp terminology for this.  That is why, for
instance, the Common Lisp function `tagbody' is not called `labelbody'
or `targetbody'.

Sincerely,

Luc.





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