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Re: Double dashes in docstrings without surrounding space - is this some


From: Yuri Khan
Subject: Re: Double dashes in docstrings without surrounding space - is this something to address?
Date: Tue, 29 May 2018 12:43:21 +0700

On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 8:45 AM Rocky Bernstein <address@hidden>
wrote:

> Recently it was pointed out to me that there are various docstrings that
use -- without surrounding spaces as in this for upcase

> The argument object is not altered--the value is a copy.

^^^^^

> You can find other examples in casefiddle.c and in some Emacs Lisp code
as well like the docstring for comiint-scroll-show-maximum-output.

> Is this intentional, or accidental? Should it be changed?

The more important issue is that a double hyphen is used where a dash
should be.



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