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authorWerner LEMBERG <[email protected]>2005-03-25 10:17:33 +0000
committerWerner LEMBERG <[email protected]>2005-03-25 10:17:33 +0000
commit2cbd16b93ebcaec3f42fcc9de129f53792583adb (patch)
tree38a6fa9a1c278f5dec9fb1e74f1c9fc86829e5e4 /man/cl.texi
parentf8b00e0f4a6140a6a390ffb97c8f984bbf7df2de (diff)
* calc.texi, cl.texi, gnus.texi, idlwave.texi, reftex.texi: Replace
`legal' with `valid'.
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1 files changed, 10 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/man/cl.texi b/man/cl.texi
index 455465a27a..6c52a16b73 100644
--- a/man/cl.texi
+++ b/man/cl.texi
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
@copying
This file documents the GNU Emacs Common Lisp emulation package.
-Copyright (C) 1993, 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright (C) 1993, 2002, 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
@quotation
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
@@ -991,7 +991,7 @@ just as with @code{setq}. @code{setf} returns the value of the last
@var{form}.
The following Lisp forms will work as generalized variables, and
-so may legally appear in the @var{place} argument of @code{setf}:
+so may appear in the @var{place} argument of @code{setf}:
@itemize @bullet
@item
@@ -1073,7 +1073,7 @@ x (point-max))} in this case).
@item
A call of the form @code{(substring @var{subplace} @var{n} [@var{m}])},
-where @var{subplace} is itself a legal generalized variable whose
+where @var{subplace} is itself a valid generalized variable whose
current value is a string, and where the value stored is also a
string. The new string is spliced into the specified part of the
destination string. For example:
@@ -2379,7 +2379,7 @@ that they are exclusive rather than inclusive limits:
The @code{by} value is always positive, even for downward-counting
loops. Some sort of @code{from} value is required for downward
-loops; @samp{for x downto 5} is not a legal loop clause all by
+loops; @samp{for x downto 5} is not a valid loop clause all by
itself.
@item for @var{var} in @var{list} by @var{function}
@@ -2481,7 +2481,7 @@ are also recognized but are equivalent to @code{symbols} in Emacs Lisp.
Due to a minor implementation restriction, it will not work to have
more than one @code{for} clause iterating over symbols, hash tables,
keymaps, overlays, or intervals in a given @code{loop}. Fortunately,
-it would rarely if ever be useful to do so. It @emph{is} legal to mix
+it would rarely if ever be useful to do so. It @emph{is} valid to mix
one of these types of clauses with other clauses like @code{for ... to}
or @code{while}.
@@ -2727,7 +2727,7 @@ not automatically imply a return value. The loop must use some
explicit mechanism, such as @code{finally return}, to return
the accumulated result.
-It is legal for several accumulation clauses of the same type to
+It is valid for several accumulation clauses of the same type to
accumulate into the same place. From Steele:
@example
@@ -3248,8 +3248,8 @@ In particular,
(get sym prop) @equiv{} (getf (symbol-plist sym) prop)
@end example
-It is legal to use @code{getf} as a @code{setf} place, in which case
-its @var{place} argument must itself be a legal @code{setf} place.
+It is valid to use @code{getf} as a @code{setf} place, in which case
+its @var{place} argument must itself be a valid @code{setf} place.
The @var{default} argument, if any, is ignored in this context.
The effect is to change (via @code{setcar}) the value cell in the
list that corresponds to @var{property}, or to cons a new property-value
@@ -3535,7 +3535,7 @@ be an integer in which case the new object is seeded from that
integer; each different integer seed will result in a completely
different sequence of random numbers.
-It is legal to print a @code{random-state} object to a buffer or
+It is valid to print a @code{random-state} object to a buffer or
file and later read it back with @code{read}. If a program wishes
to use a sequence of pseudo-random numbers which can be reproduced
later for debugging, it can call @code{(make-random-state t)} to
@@ -4575,7 +4575,7 @@ initialized from the corresponding argument. Slots whose names
do not appear in the argument list are initialized based on the
@var{default-value} in their slot descriptor. Also, @code{&optional}
and @code{&key} arguments which don't specify defaults take their
-defaults from the slot descriptor. It is legal to include arguments
+defaults from the slot descriptor. It is valid to include arguments
which don't correspond to slot names; these are useful if they are
referred to in the defaults for optional, keyword, or @code{&aux}
arguments which @emph{do} correspond to slots.