APPROVE COMMIT NOTE: This patch has been committed # HG changeset patch # User Aidan Kehoe <kehoea(a)parhasard.net&gt; # Date 1530725348 -3600 # Wed Jul 04 18:29:08 2018 +0100 # Node ID 73b61c5225a6c7026ea8a8a40372a97160f53202 # Parent 7fb73e4efef3a3629eaf1b4253d47751e65894fa Make the docstring to #'special-operator-p a little more helpful. src/ChangeLog addition: 2018-07-04 Aidan Kehoe <kehoea(a)parhasard.net&gt; * symbols.c (Fspecial_operator_p): Change the name of the argument of this function to OBJECT in its docstring, to make it clearer that there is no error if the argument is a non-subr. diff -r 7fb73e4efef3 -r 73b61c5225a6 src/ChangeLog --- a/src/ChangeLog Sun Jul 01 21:06:56 2018 +0100 +++ b/src/ChangeLog Wed Jul 04 18:29:08 2018 +0100 ＠＠ -1,3 +1,10 ＠＠ +2018-07-04 Aidan Kehoe <kehoea(a)parhasard.net&gt; + + * symbols.c (Fspecial_operator_p): + Change the name of the argument of this function to OBJECT in its + docstring, to make it clearer that there is no error if the + argument is a non-subr. + 2018-06-30 Aidan Kehoe <kehoea(a)parhasard.net&gt; * glyphs.c (check_window_subwindow_cache): diff -r 7fb73e4efef3 -r 73b61c5225a6 src/symbols.c --- a/src/symbols.c Sun Jul 01 21:06:56 2018 +0100 +++ b/src/symbols.c Wed Jul 04 18:29:08 2018 +0100 ＠＠ -444,7 +444,7 ＠＠ } DEFUN ("special-operator-p", Fspecial_operator_p, 1, 1, 0, /* -Return whether SUBR is a special operator. +Return whether OBJECT is a special operator. A special operator is a built-in function (a subr, that is a function implemented in C, not Lisp) which does not necessarily evaluate all its ＠＠ -457,10 +457,10 ＠＠ implementations) way to go about it is to write a macro instead. See `defmacro' and `backquote'. */ - (subr)) + (object)) { - subr = indirect_function (subr, 0); - return (SUBRP (subr) && XSUBR (subr)->max_args == UNEVALLED) ? Qt : Qnil; + object = indirect_function (object, 0); + return (SUBRP (object) && XSUBR (object)->max_args == UNEVALLED) ? Qt : Qnil; } DEFUN ("setplist", Fsetplist, 2, 2, 0, /* -- ‘As I sat looking up at the Guinness ad, I could never figure out / How your man stayed up on the surfboard after forty pints of stout’ (C. Moore)