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> From: Jim Blandy <jimb@codesourcery.com>
> Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 14:24:55 -0800
> 
> There are three possible approaches:
> 
> a) In Eli's original message, the list include "*EXPRESSION" and
>    "*FUNCTION" as separate cases.  This suggested to me that Eli
>    thought we should document them as separate cases.
> 
> b) We could document the "*EXPRESSION" case, and then point out the
>    commonly used "*FUNCTION" usage of that case.
> 
> c) We could document "*EXPRESSION", and not mention "*FUNCTION" at
>    all.
> 
> I dislike a), because it suggests that "*FUNCTION" is recognized
> specially --- it is not.  In many languages this doesn't matter, but
> as Joel points out, a) would be actively misleading for Ada users, as
> "*FUNCTION" does not refer to the first instruction of FUNCTION in
> Ada.
> 
> I dislike c), for the reasons Eli mentioned, and because I appreciate
> having handy use cases pointed out.
> 
> So b) is my first choice.

And b) is exactly what I tried to get across (although it seems I
failed).  Hopefully this mail from Jim clarifies things.