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bug#5744: 23.1.92; doc string of `version<' etc.
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Štěpán Němec |
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bug#5744: 23.1.92; doc string of `version<' etc. |
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Sat, 20 Mar 2010 18:44:19 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.91 (gnu/linux) |
"Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
> 1. Change "lesser than" to "less than".
"Lesser" seems completely fine to me, but I'm not a native speaker.
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> 2. Say explicitly that V1 and V2 are strings.
I think that's clear from the docstring, but more clarity never hurts, yes.
> Say in fact that they are strings of the format returned by variable
> `emacs-version'.
That would be misleading at best IMHO.
The function accepts a far wider set of arguments.
Also note that you would most probably want to change docstrings of
the whole family of the version functions to stay consistent.