bug#59014: closed (29.0.50; single string in function body should act as doc string)

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regarding 29.0.50; single string in function body should act as doc string
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> 29.0.50; single string in function body should act as doc string
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> Fri, 04 Nov 2022 13:26:22 +0100
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> According to the Emacs lisp manual, node "Documentation Strings of Functions":
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>     You may wonder how the documentation string could be optional, since
>     there are required components of the function that follow it (the
>     body). Since evaluation of a string returns that string, without any
>     side effects, it has no effect if it is not the last form in the
>     body. Thus, in practice, there is no confusion between the first
>     form of the body and the documentation string; if the only body form
>     is a string then it serves both as the return value and as the
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> This last sentence is no longer true in 29.0.50, the single string is
> not used as doc string:
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> (defun f () "foo")
> ⇒ f
> (f)
> ⇒ "foo"
> (documentation 'f)
> ⇒ nil
> (emacs-version)
> ⇒ "GNU Emacs 29.0.50 (build 3, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.5, cairo 
> version 1.16.0)
>  of 2022-11-03"
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> Hope this helps,
> Nicolas
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> >> Should be fixed now,
> > Thanks, works now.
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> Closing,
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>         Stefan
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