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Re: [commit] Doc: -var-delete


> > @smallexample
> > ! Â-var-delete [ -c ] @var{name}
> > @end smallexample
> > 
> > Deletes a previously created variable object and all of its children.
> > + With the @samp{-c} option, just deletes the children.

> Should this be "deletes just the children"? Or "deletes only the children"?
> The way it's written now "just" binds to "deletes", so one wonders if
> there's "just delete" behaviour and "not just delete" behaviour and what
> the latter might be.

If it were a legal contract, I think you may have found a loophole.  For
general reading though, I think the second sentence is unambiguous in the
context of the first.  However I don't mind if someone wants to change it.

-- 
Nick http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob


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