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

[Mattias Engdegård]

26 feb. 2024 kl. 19.17 skrev Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>:

> No, I mean that we should not keep the old dual-use semantics, even if
> it means some docstrings get temporarily "lost" until the code is fixed.

Yes, that's fine. Those aren't likely to have many avid readers.

> As for whether (defun (ARGS) "string") should treat the string as
> a docstring or a return value, I'd rather keep it as a return value, so
> it's the same as for `lambda`.  Another reason is because, the kind of
> failures it is likely to introduce is a lot more mild: it's much safer
> to remove a docstring than to change the return value.

I agree. I'll make a patch for the warning, just so that we can see what it 
would look like.

And will let you worry about the highlighting then!