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bug#21581: 25.0.50; doc string of `load'
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#21581: 25.0.50; doc string of `load' |
Date: |
Tue, 29 Sep 2015 08:22:53 +0300 |
> Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2015 10:22:51 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
>
> Say that FILE is a string.
load is a built-in function in ‘C source code’.
(load FILE &optional NOERROR NOMESSAGE NOSUFFIX MUST-SUFFIX)
Execute a file of Lisp code named FILE.
Do you really mean we need to say explicitly that a file's name is a
string in Emacs? What else can it be? From the ELisp manual:
24.8 File Names
===============
Files are generally referred to by their names, in Emacs as elsewhere.
File names in Emacs are represented as strings. The functions that
operate on a file all expect a file name argument.
I think this is so basic that we can always say "a file's name" and
assume the reader must know it can only be a string.