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bug#69387: 30.0.50; A string shouldn't be both a docstring and a return


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: bug#69387: 30.0.50; A string shouldn't be both a docstring and a return value
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2024 13:23:00 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13)

> Here again we are changing age-old (mis)features, which some code
> somewhere probably relies upon.  Why? because a newly-introduced
> byte-compilation warning erroneously flagged that as a mistake in the
> doc string.
>
> My vote is to leave this alone.

There is no benefit to this misfeature.
Leaving this alone will maintain a low-level of pain for the
foreseeable future.  Fixing it may introduce minor breakage (like
`C-h m` saying there's no docstring) in the short term but these are
easy to fix and they'll disappear quickly.


        Stefan






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