Re: holiday-easter-etc incompatibility and docs

[Glenn Morris]

Thanks for these comments; all on the money IMO.


Dave Love wrote:

> a reason it can't use the old behaviour if called with no args, I

It now reverts to the old behaviour if called with no args.

> Also the new doc string is unclear. I think it should say that the
> STRING arg is just for display -- it doesn't have to match some
> wired-in name, as you might think. It should probably say that N can
> be negative, which is presumably the most common case.

Clarified.

> The doc for the holiday functions in general is misleading about
> what they return, which is important if you're programming
> customizations. When they're for a single date, they actually return
> a list of a single pair of the date and a string -- not just the
> date as the doc implies.

Added to my list of things to do.