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Re: master 930c578c104: ; Improvements to PEG documentation


From: Eric Abrahamsen
Subject: Re: master 930c578c104: ; Improvements to PEG documentation
Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2024 17:51:44 -0700
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Michael Heerdegen via "Emacs development discussions."
<emacs-devel@gnu.org> writes:

> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>
>> I've fixed this -- I ended up using "anonymous function" instead,
>> mostly because the sentence was a bit confusing with just "function".
>
> Thanks.
>
> [ "Function" would have been fine with me, since it would be really
> surprising if the code would name this ad-hoc constructed function that
> is useful only once.  And it doesn't matter.  What matters a bit maybe
> is the signature of this function - although one can guess it. ]

It was more the language of the documentation: two "functions" in close
proximity that referred to different functions; I found it a bit
ambiguous, and awkward.




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