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Re: Poor quality documentation in edebug.el, and recursive documentation


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: Poor quality documentation in edebug.el, and recursive documentation.
Date: Sat, 09 May 2020 09:47:03 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux)

> Once again: "Return value" doesn't sound right to me, since it implies
> read-only access to the value, something that AFAIU is inaccurate.  It
> actually returns a settable "place", doesn't it?

AFAIK the official name for that in OO parlance is an "accessor".
Which is why I used the verb "Access".


        Stefan




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